config

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Overview

The plugin/config package is used to manage which plugins are imported into MCI. The installed_plugins.go file contains an import for each plugin package we would like to use.

Plugins publish themselves to the mci/plugin package on program initialization. This means that once we've written a package that properly registers a plugin, all we have to do to make the mci/plugin package aware of it is to import the new package somewhere (i.e. in installed_plugins.go).

To install a new plugin, simply get it:

go get host.com/path/to/new/plugin

And import it in installed_plugins.go with:

import _ "host.com/path/to/new/plugin"

(the underscore after the import is used to tell Go we just want to import the package for its initialization function)