Would it be possible to make the installation location for the external plugins (those talked to via xmlrpc) configurable? Currently, they are installed into (and later expected to be in) /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins. For the Fedora package (which I maintain), I move them to /usr/libexec/ikiwiki/plugins. While not covered by the FHS, this seems to be a more appropriate place, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir.

This would need to be a build time configuration setting so the directory is built into ikiwiki for use at runtime. --Joey

As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some directory on the python path.

If someone can show how to do so without needing a Setup.py and all the pain that using one entails.. --Joey

At the very least I don't think proxy.py should be on the sys.path under its current name. If it was renamed to ikiwiki_proxy or some such, possibly; but I think it's more appropriate to have it in an ikiwiki-specific directory (a "private module") since it's not useful for anything outside ikiwiki, and putting it in the same directory as the external plugins means it's automatically in their sys.path without needing special configuration. --smcv (a mostly-inactive member of Debian's Python modules packaging team)