* Add a libdir config option to let ikiwiki load perl modules, including

plugins, from a user-configurable directory.

IkiWiki.pm

@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ sub defaultconfig () { #{{{
 	adminemail => undef,
 	plugin => [qw{mdwn inline htmlscrubber passwordauth openid signinedit
 	              lockedit conditional}],
+	libdir => undef,
 	timeformat => '%c',
 	locale => undef,
 	sslcookie => 0,
@@ -140,8 +141,12 @@ sub checkconfig () { #{{{
 } #}}}
 
 sub loadplugins () { #{{{
+	if (defined $config{libdir}) {
+		unshift @INC, $config{libdir};
+	}
+
 	loadplugin($_) foreach @{$config{plugin}};
-	
+
 	run_hooks(getopt => sub { shift->() });
 	if (grep /^-/, @ARGV) {
 		print STDERR "Unknown option: $_\n"

debian/changelog

@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ ikiwiki (2.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Add templatefile hook.
   * Add pagetemplate plugin, which allows changing the template used for
     a page. (Not to be confused with the hook of the same name..)
+  * Add a libdir config option to let ikiwiki load perl modules, including
+    plugins, from a user-configurable directory.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:16:55 -0400
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:47:23 -0400
 
 ikiwiki (2.4) unstable; urgency=low
 

doc/ikiwiki.setup

@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard {
 	#                   htmltidy fortune sidebar map rst anonok}],
 	# If you want to disable any of the default plugins, list them here.
 	#disable_plugins => [qw{inline htmlscrubber passwordauth openid}],
+	# To add a directory to the perl searh path, use this.
+	#libdir => "/home/me/.ikiwiki/",
 
 	# For use with the tag plugin, make all tags be located under a
 	# base page.

doc/plugins.mdwn

@@ -11,14 +11,6 @@ To enable plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in
 Enable the [[goodstuff]] plugin to get a nice selection of plugins that
 will fit most uses of ikiwiki.
 
-Without administrator access, you can add some custom plugins by storing 
-yourcustomplugin.pm in /home/user/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugins (or any other
-place, keeping the "IkiWiki/Plugins" part of the path) and adding this
-line at the begining of your ikiwiki.setup file:
-
-    BEGIN { push @INC, "/home/user/.ikiwiki" } 
-
-
 ## Plugin directory
 
 [[inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and

doc/plugins/contrib.mdwn

@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@ IkiWiki::Plugin namespace, so they go in a IkiWiki/Plugin subdirectory
 inside the perl search path. For example, if your perl looks in
 `/usr/local/lib/site_perl` for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki
 plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin`
+
+You can use the `libdir` configuration option to add a directory to the
+search path. For example, if you set `libdir` to `/home/you/.ikiwiki/`,
+then ikiwiki will look for plugins in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugins`.

doc/usage.mdwn

@@ -229,6 +229,12 @@ configuration options of their own.
   Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
   to do away with HTML sanitization.
 
+* --libdir directory
+
+  Makes ikiwiki look in the specified directory first, before the regular perl
+  library directories. For example, if you set libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/",
+  you can install plugins in "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugins/".
+
 * --discussion, --no-discussion
 
   Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of

ikiwiki.in

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ sub getconfig () { #{{{
 			"httpauth!" => \$config{httpauth},
 			"userdir=s" => \$config{userdir},
 			"htmlext=s" => \$config{htmlext},
+			"libdir" => \$config{libdir},
 			"exclude=s@" => sub {
 				push @{$config{wiki_file_prune_regexps}}, $_[1];
 			},