From: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:59:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: webber.py: add plugin_dirs[] configuration
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webber.py: add plugin_dirs[] configuration
---

diff --git a/in/configuration.md b/in/configuration.md
index ed5648f..4e785c9 100644
--- a/in/configuration.md
+++ b/in/configuration.md
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ Webber expects a `webber.conf` file in it's root directory. It should look like
         	"read_markdown",
 	        "template_mako",
         	]
+	plugin_dirs: [
+		"my_plugins"
+		]
 	exclude_dir: [
 		"webber.conf",
 		"*.tmpl",
@@ -65,7 +68,12 @@ Encoding ('utf-8', 'iso-8859-1' etc) used when writing the final HTML pages.
 
 == plugins ==
 
-List of [[plugins]] to load.
+List of  to load.
+
+== plugin_dirs ==
+
+List of directories that should be search for [[plugins]]. Can be empty or
+completely omitted.
 
 == exclude_dirs ==
 
diff --git a/in/plugins/index.md b/in/plugins/index.md
index 176cde1..bbf30a3 100644
--- a/in/plugins/index.md
+++ b/in/plugins/index.md
@@ -17,10 +17,13 @@ to plugins. Those plugins do:
 There's another plugin there ([[skeleton.py|skeleton]]), which is
 is just a demo for plugin-programmers.
 
-Plugins simply reside in the "`plugins/`" directory. However, webber
-doesn't load all of them automatically. Instead you specify in the
-configuration file [[webber.conf|configuration]] which
-plugins you want.
+Plugins simply reside in the "`plugins/`" directory from webber itself. If your
+web project needs local plugins, you can specifiy additional plugins with
+"`plugin_dirs`" in [[webber.conf|configuration]].
+
+Note that webber doesn't load all of them automatically. Instead you specify
+in the configuration file [[webber.conf|configuration]] which plugins you
+want. Use the variable "`plugins`" for that.
 
 Once plugins are loaded, webber orchestrates the work of itself and
 all plugins via [[hooks]].
diff --git a/webber.py b/webber.py
index 73f9e73..9b3d072 100644
--- a/webber.py
+++ b/webber.py
@@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ hooks = {}
 def load_plugins():
 	"""Loads all plugins in the plugins directory."""
 	sys.path.append(os.path.join(get_program_directory(), "plugins"))
+	if cfg.has_key("plugin_dirs"):
+		for s in cfg.plugin_dirs:
+			sys.path.append(s)
 	for s in cfg.plugins:
 		#print "import:", s
 		try: