530767 - Allow for CPAN distribution of extensions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Extensions, enhancement)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

With the way that extensions are written now, it wouldn't be too hard to allow for CPAN distribution of extensions. I think we'd mostly just need:

1) A way to let them specify their template directory.
2) A way to load them when they aren't in our extensions/ directory.
3) Something to account for the fact that Config.pm will have to work differently.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v1

This does the bare minimum--it doesn't yet handle the fact that template paths will be different. But it does allow installing modules from CPAN. I tested by converting BmpConvert to a format that could be distributed on CPAN and putting it in Bugzilla's lib/ dir, and it loaded fine.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Checking in Bugzilla/Extension.pm;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/Bugzilla/Extension.pm,v  <--  Extension.pm
new revision: 1.4; previous revision: 1.3
done
Checking in Bugzilla/Install/Filesystem.pm;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/Bugzilla/Install/Filesystem.pm,v  <--  Filesystem.pm
new revision: 1.42; previous revision: 1.41
done
Checking in Bugzilla/Install/Util.pm;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/Bugzilla/Install/Util.pm,v  <--  Util.pm
new revision: 1.24; previous revision: 1.23
done