Bazaar

"bzr plugins" should also display the plugin search path

Bug #176284 reported by Andrew Bennetts on 2007-12-14

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Bazaar	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Excerpt from IRC conversation I just had:

<glyph> suggestion for a feature, maybe, though
<glyph> 'bzr plugins' should tell me where all the canonical plugin locations are
<glyph> not just what's installed
<spiv> You mean, where you can install plugins?
<glyph> Yeah. There's ~/.bazaar on UNIX, I assume there's a similar per-user thing on Windows, but since nothing is installed there, "bzr plugins" won't tell me about it.

It would be useful if "bzr plugins" reported the search path bzr is using for locating plugins, especially as it can vary by platform, by where bzr is installed, and by how BZR_PLUGIN_PATH is set.

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Alexander Belchenko (bialix) wrote on 2007-12-15:

Agreed, but only with -v (--verbose) flag.

Changed in bzr:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

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pdf23ds (pdf23ds) wrote on 2008-10-17:

Another problem is that the online docs don't mention this anywhere. It should probably be in the user guide and maybe some other places.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2008-10-17: Re: [Bug 176284] Re: "bzr plugins" should also display the plugin search path

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 05:55 +0000, pdf23ds wrote:
> Another problem is that the online docs don't mention this anywhere. It
> should probably be in the user guide and maybe some other places.

its definitely in bzr help env-variables (or however that is spelt). I
agree it could be more visible.

re: plugins showing it, I disagree - bzr --version is a better place,
because it shows a bunch of paths and its what we ask for for
diagnostics.

-Rob
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