[Pkg-bazaar-maint] [RFC] Plugin property API

[Aaron Bentley]

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Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> With the current infrastructure the minimum and maximum version of bzr
> that is supported will have to be specified in two places: __init__.py
> (a range of API versions that's supported) and setup.py (a mimimum and
> maximum bzrlib version). Since this information is updated regularly
> (pretty much every bzr version) I'd like to specify it only once, in
> setup.py.

My plugins often don't have setup.py  They often consist of just __init__.py

And bear in mind that plugins may also be modules, instead of packages.
 If so, it's impossible for them to have a setup.py.

> This could then take care of checking the minimum/maximum supported
> versions as declared by the plugin. Unfortunately it would mean an
> extra import per plugin (for the setup file). Would anybody object to
> such a function?

Yes, I'd rather setup.py got the info from __init__.py, instead of the
other way around.

Aaron
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