[opam-devel] opam publish package name

[Louis Gesbert]

> - Fabrice Le Fessant, 19/08/2015 12:04 -
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Louis Gesbert
> <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
> >> package, preventing "opam-cache", etc.), either to reserve names for
> >> possible plugins ("search", "file", "git", etc).
> >
> > "search" is already an opam command :)
> 
> Is it planned to have a dynlink mechanism for plugins ? Then, it would
> be possible to override existing builtin commands from inside.

I don't think there is a clear need right now, but we may want one one day.
An idea was to use plugins for specialising for different system (e.g. ocaml), but I don't think that's actually even needed (the most important need was for specific variables, and we are going towards defining them in the configuration, and from packages).

> Another possibility would be to have aliases for builtins, and allow
> to override their default names: for example, if I type "opam search
> XXX", opam would first call "opam-search", and only if it does not
> exist, call the builtin. Then "opam-search" would be able to call
> "opam builtins search XXX" to access the builtin command with enhanced
> parameters...

That sounds dangerous ;)
There is at the moment a check that specifically disables plugins named like a known command. The above could be quite straight-forward to implement, but I don't clearly see a use-case.