Preinstalled Plugins in the TWiki Distribution

Preinstalled Plugins

TWikiReleases come with a set of Plugins as part of the standard installation. The following Plugins are in the distribution or scheduled for inclusion in the latest TWikiBetaRelease: (they are also installed on TWiki.org)

Above list is INCLUDEd from TWiki.TWikiPlugins

Plugins bundled in TWikiProductionReleases and Beta:

Criteria for Bundling a Plugin

A Plugin recommended for inclusion should meet the following requirements. This is for ease of installation and to ensure the high quality standard of the whole distribution.

• Plugins must be under active development at TWiki.org
• Plugins needs to be of high quality, comparable to the TWiki distribution
• Plugin must depend only on standard libs of the required Perl version listed in TWikiSystemRequirements
• Plugin may include additional libraries, but they must not depend on make; e.g. a simple copy operation is all that's needed
• Plugin must not slow down the system by more then 5% for pages that have no Plugin specific content (regular cgi, not mod_perl)
• Plugin should fit the TWikiMission

-- PeterThoeny - 14 Dec 2003

Plugins recommended for Bundling

Please list Plugins you'd like to see included in the TWiki distribution

ActionTrackerPlugin

• Question: How to handle CPAN dependency on CPAN:Time::ParseDate
  • Possibly create our own TWiki::Date native Perl module?

CalendarPlugin

• Question: How to handle CPAN dependency on CPAN:HTML::CalendarMonthSimple and CPAN:Date::Calc
  • Possibly create our own TWiki::Date native Perl module which implements the needed functionality of Date::Calc? (Date::Calc requires a c compiler as part of the installation)

ChartPlugin

• Question: How to handle CPAN dependency on GD and lib dependency on gd.

FormFieldsPlugin

• Question: The JavaScript calendar control is already in the EditTablePlugin. Does it make sense to make FormFieldsPlugin dependent on EditTablePlugin?
  • This should rely on JSCalendarContrib instead.

FormQueryPlugin

• Issue: A number of CPAN dependencies

HeadlinesPlugin

• No known isses, can be included

LocalCityTimePlugin

• No known isses, can be included

RandomTopicPlugin

• Issue: Not actively maintained at TWiki.org

RedirectPlugin

• Issue: Not actively maintained at TWiki.org
• Question: Will it have a speed impact?

RevRecoverPlugin

• Issue: Not actively maintained at TWiki.org
• Question: Will it have a speed impact?

TWikiDrawPlugin

• Question: What is the latest status on the Plugin?

PreferencesPlugins

• No known isses, can be included
• UsingFormsForSettings could be retired in favor of this feature

Discussions

Once we have a platform independent TWikiInstaller we can let the admin choose what Plugins to install. The TWiki package would still contain all preinstalled Plugins.

-- PeterThoeny - 14 Dec 2003

I'd like to see FormFieldsPlugin as a pre-installed plugin, especially if JavaScript calendar control is added.

-- JohnTalintyre - 13 Feb 2004