[dokuwiki] Re: Farm support for plugin manager
- From: Christopher Smith <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:09:50 +0100
On 14 Jun 2011, at 20:24, Michael Hamann wrote:
> What about simply using the existing configuration files and just add a
> enabled/disabled boolean setting for each plugin?
>
> There could be a default state and then the farmer and the animals could
> each disable or enable plugins as they need. This could also make it
> possible to e.g. disable a plugin by default and still make it possible
> to enable it in an animal and at the same time force the disabling of
> certain plugins globally.
>
I like this idea.
<snip>
>
>> A white list of enabled plugins, removes the need to scan the plugin
>> directory for each page request.
>
> But how do you recognize new plugins then?
>
Its intended for when the plugin manager manages plugins. It either knows its
installed a new plugin or can be given a function to scan the entire plugin
directory.
>> With a complete list, every plugin and either enabled/disabled in
>> config, it could be efficient to keep the final resolved list in
>> _cache. And so avoid both scanning the plugin directory and
>> processing the plugin lists on every page view. To avoid issues with
>> manual list updating, I think this would require a config option to
>> allow or have the cache dependent on the files in the config cascade
>> (which puts back some of the file accesses on each page view).
>
> I'm not sure if the benefit of such a list is really that large as a)
> you need to be able to recognize new plugins and b) you still need to
> scan the plugin directories for the files that need to be loaded. You
> can of course cache both but then you need a way to detect new files
> etc.
I recall an issue with nfs based wikis where minimizing directory access was
important. However, if the plugin list is retrieved from the config files,
there is no need for a separate list in cache. The discussion point becomes
whether or not, in a normal page request, a list built from the config files
can be considered complete.
For manually updated plugins, adding a facility to the plugin manager to build
the list by scanning the plugin directory shouldn't be difficult.
- Chris
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