Changes between Version 64 and Version 65 of TracDev/PluginDevelopment

Timestamp:

Jul 27, 2014, 9:14:37 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

Peter Suter

Comment:

Mention single file plugins

TracDev/PluginDevelopment

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 Storing any other objects as instance variables of your component is probably a bad idea: remember that a component is only instantiated once for a given environment; unless your plugin is used in a CGI deployment of Trac, that means that the same component instance will get invoked for multiple HTTP requests; if the server is multi-threaded, this will even happen concurrently.
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+== Single file plugins ==
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+Plugins that consist of a single `.py` file can be dropped directly into either the project's or the shared `plugins` directory. More complex plugins require some packaging.
 
 == Packaging plugins ==