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Would it be possible to make the installation location for the external
plugins (those talked to via xmlrpc) configurable? Currently, they are
installed into (and later expected to be in) /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins. For
the Fedora package (which I maintain), I move them to
/usr/libexec/ikiwiki/plugins. While not covered by the FHS, this seems to
be a more appropriate place, see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir.

This would need to be a build time configuration setting so the directory
is built into ikiwiki for use at runtime. --[[Joey]]

As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some directory on the python path.

If someone can show how to do so without needing a Setup.py and all the
pain that using one entails.. --[[Joey]]


At the very least I don't think proxy.py should be on the sys.path
under its current name. If it was renamed to ikiwiki_proxy or some such,
possibly; but I think it's more appropriate to have it in an
ikiwiki-specific directory (a "private module") since it's not useful for
anything outside ikiwiki, and putting it in the same directory as the
external plugins means it's automatically in their sys.path without
needing special configuration. --[[smcv]]
(a mostly-inactive member of Debian's Python modules packaging team)