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Patch #13927 (New): Reduce coupling between plugins and the "plugins/" directory

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Today plugins are just directories in <redmine root>/plugins/ directory. There are a few implicit assumptions in Redmine code that this is the case, which doesn't add much benefit I think. This reference is needed in the plugin discovery mechanism, but I can see obvious reasons why it may appear anywhere else.

It has at least one disadvantage: it prevents from easily distributing plugins as gems or via an other mechanism (which I think has a long list of advantages that I could enumerate an other day).

An other motivation is that removing this would lead to clearer code I think, we could remove some Dir.glob and File.xxx calls in favor of new, clear methods in Redmine::Plugin.

I'll try to work on that and link commit to this issue.


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