Re: [BuildStream] Thoughts around plugins: deprecation

[Daniel Silverstone <daniel silverstone codethink co uk>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 14:34:32 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom via BuildStream-list wrote:
> Now that I think of it, it seems that we don't need any "feature" to
> achieve this kind of sharing, project B can very well put their plugin
> definitions into a file to be included by their project.conf, project A
> can then cross-junction include the plugin definitions of project B.

I had no idea that includes could cross junctions.  This is interesting as it
opens up two namespaces when crossing a junction - filepaths and element names.

(unless included files must be referenced relative to a project's element path?)

> > Ultimately this is a nice-to-have and I'd be prepared to drop the desire to
> > silence deprecation warnings.
>
> Honestly I don't feel super strongly about it, not doing something
> until we really must is usually a good strategy, though.

Agree.  So we drop at least that part of the proposal for now.

D.

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