emsm.plugins.plugins

About

This is a package manager for EMSM plugins. Uninstall and install plugins with this plugin.

This plugin works only with valid packages and plugins that store its data in the dedicated paths.

Download

You can find the latest version of this plugin in the EMSM GitHub repository.

Arguments

--install ARCHIVE

Installs an new plugin from the archive. If a plugin with the same name already exists, the installation will fail.

--remove PLUGIN

Removes the plugin from the EMSM. Please make sure, that no other plugin depends on this one.

--list

Lists all loaded plugins.

Package structure

The archive that contains the plugin should have the following structure:

|- foo.tar.bz2
   |- plugin.py
   |- data
      |- bar.txt
      |- bar.csv
      |- ...

During the installation, the path names will be changed to:

|- EMSM_ROOT
  |- plugins
     |- foo.py    <= plugin.py
  |-plugins_data
     |- foo       <= data
        |- bar.txt
        |- bar.csv
        |- ...

Builder

This plugin comes with an EMSM independent building script for new plugins. This means, that you can call this script without having the EMSM environment.

Arguments

--create TARGET

--source FILE

--data DIRECTORY

--help, -h

Example

Build the plugin foo, that comes with a data directory:

$ plugin.py --create build/foo --source dev/foo.py --data dev/foo_data
$ ls build
... foo.tar.bz2 ...