[Rt-devel] My current favorite best-practice for RT extensions ([fwd] Announce: per-queue branding for RT)

[Jesse Vincent]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:56:44PM -0500, Todd Chapman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:06:48PM -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > We recently developed this RT extension. I'm somewhat more pleased with
> > how the library extensions worked out here than with things we've done
> > in the past. Additionally, it makes it a lot easier to install multiple
> > extensions than overloading the _Local mechanism.
> > 
> 
> Jesse,
> 
> Looking at the code, I would summarize the new best practice as:
> 
> * Introduce HTML using Callbacks and components in $RTHOME/local/html
> * Introduce libs in the RT::Extension namespace in $RTHOME/local/lib
>   and use the module from RT_SiteConfig.pm.
> 
> Did I miss anything? 
> 

It's more about declaring extensions that are in RT::Core::Module
namespaces inside your extensions's lib file.


> Why even install the libs in $RTHOME and not just the perl site
> lib? Just because it is of no use without RT?

Because then you hurt yourself when you have a second RT instance.

> Thanks for the great new extension!
> 
> -Todd
> 

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