Assuming for the moment that the concept of a managed plugin is accepted, then.
The relationship between distribution managers and the git-plugin
architecture would be as follows:
- distributions would know how to locate the git instance it manages
- distributions would know how to install their own packages that
contain plugins into plugins/ subdirectory of this git instance
- distributions would know how to run git plugin activate and properly
handle non-zero return codes from same
make install scripts would act like a kind of distribution in this regard.
Now consider this:
* suppose that git-core defined a git install _interface contract_ but
did not define an implementation.
Then, a distribution could install its own implementation of the
git-install plugin into git installations it manages.
Then a command like:
git install gitwork
would trivially work across all distributions precisely because the
distribution has provided the implementation of the git install
interface contract that git-core has helpfully mandated.
jon.
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