I had an idea about this, I would just like to say it is porbably un- pythonic, scary, and completely untested, here goes:
Create a model for plugins, it should have a filefield and a few other fields for meta data(these should not be editable), plus a boolean field for enabled. Essentially what should happen is the file will contain a class and some meta data that gives information about itself. When you upload the file it gets read to get the meta data out(for example it might have a title, description, author, and some way of telling your application what it expects for input). This can be done using the __import__ feautre of python, here is an example: http://dpaste.com/36440/ in the .py file there should be a variable with a generic name that is a copy of the class, that way the class can be whatever you want, then each plugin's class just needs to implement a generic interface, and a inner class with the meta info, then when you want to use it you could do something like this: http://dpaste.com/36442/ On Feb 22, 11:18 am, canen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just chiming in here. There is a Wordpress 'clone' written in Python > called Textpress [1]. It implements > a lightweight events/actions system[2] akin to the one you mentioned. > > [1]http://textpress.pocoo.org/ > [2]http://dev.pocoo.org/projects/textpress/browser/textpress/application... > > On Feb 22, 11:27 am, Kyle Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The part that I'm struggling to wrap my head around is how to make > > plugins "installable". > > > I think one of the reasons Wordpress's plugin framework is so > > successful is how easy it is to manage your plugins: install / > > uninstall buttons on a page means the user doesn't have to write any > > glue code or even do anything from the command line. > > > I guess you could have an empty 'plugins' app somewhere, and simply > > drop py files into it for each plugin. What are your guys' thoughts > > on how to accomplish this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
