Remove the dependency to pkgutil for the plugins

pelican/__init__.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import argparse
 import os
 import time
-import pkgutil
 
 from blinker import signal
 
@@ -46,15 +45,18 @@ class Pelican(object):
             else:
                 raise Exception("Impossible to find the theme %s" % theme)
         
-        plugins_path = plugins_path or settings['PLUGINS_PATH']
+        self.init_plugins()
-        if plugins_path:
-            plugins_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(plugins_path))
-            self.load_plugins(plugins_path)
-        else:
-            self.plugins = None
-        
         signal('pelican_initialized').send(self)
 
+    def init_plugins(self):
+        self.plugins = self.settings['PLUGINS']
+        for plugin in self.plugins:
+            # if it's a string, then import it
+            if isinstance(plugin, str):
+                plugin = __import__(plugin, globals(), locals(), 'module')
+
+            plugin.register()
+
     def run(self):
         """Run the generators and return"""
 
@@ -97,13 +99,6 @@ class Pelican(object):
     def get_writer(self):
         return Writer(self.output_path, settings=self.settings)
     
-    def load_plugins(self, path):
-        loaded = []
-        for module_loader, name, ispkg in pkgutil.walk_packages(path=[path,]):
-            loaded.append(module_loader.find_module(name).load_module(name))
-        self.plugins = loaded
-        
-
 
 
 def main():
@@ -136,8 +131,6 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument('-r', '--autoreload', dest='autoreload', action='store_true',
             help="Relaunch pelican each time a modification occurs on the content"
                  "files")
-    parser.add_argument('-p', '--plugins', default=None, dest='plugins_path',
-            help='the path of plugins to use')
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     log.init(args.verbosity)
@@ -155,7 +148,7 @@ def main():
 
     try:
         pelican = cls(settings, args.path, args.theme, args.output, markup,
-                args.delete_outputdir, args.plugins_path)
+                args.delete_outputdir)
         if args.autoreload:
             while True:
                 try:

pelican/generators.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from blinker import signal
 from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
 from jinja2.exceptions import TemplateNotFound
 
-from pelican.utils import copytree, get_relative_path, process_translations, open
+from pelican.utils import copy, get_relative_path, process_translations, open
 from pelican.contents import Article, Page, is_valid_content
 from pelican.readers import read_file
 from pelican.log import *
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ class ArticlesGenerator(Generator):
                 and self.settings['FALLBACK_ON_FS_DATE']:
                     metadata['date'] = datetime.fromtimestamp(os.stat(f).st_ctime)
 
-            self.signal['pelican_article_generate_context'].send(self, metadatas=metadatas)
+            self.signal['pelican_article_generate_context'].send(self, metadata=metadata)
             article = Article(content, metadata, settings=self.settings,
                               filename=f)
             if not is_valid_content(article, f):

pelican/plugins/global_license.py

@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ Add LICENSE to your settings file to define default license.
 
 """
 
-def add_license(generator, metadatas):
+def add_license(generator, metadata):
-    if 'license' not in metadatas.keys()\
+    if 'license' not in metadata.keys()\
         and 'LICENSE' in generator.settings.keys():
-            metadatas['license'] = generator.settings['LICENSE']
+            metadata['license'] = generator.settings['LICENSE']
 
 
 signal('pelican_article_generate_context').connect(add_license)

pelican/plugins/gravatar.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Settings:
 
 Add AUTHOR_EMAIL to your settings file to define default author email
 
-Article metadatas:
+Article metadata:
 ------------------
 
 :email:  article's author email
@@ -22,18 +22,19 @@ If one of them are defined the author_gravatar variable is added to
 article's context.
 """
 
-def add_gravatar(generator, metadatas):
+def add_gravatar(generator, metadata):
     
     #first check email
-    if 'email' not in metadatas.keys()\
+    if 'email' not in metadata.keys()\
         and 'AUTHOR_EMAIL' in generator.settings.keys():
-            metadatas['email'] = generator.settings['AUTHOR_EMAIL']
+            metadata['email'] = generator.settings['AUTHOR_EMAIL']
             
     #then add gravatar url
-    if 'email' in metadatas.keys():
+    if 'email' in metadata.keys():
         gravatar_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/" + \
-                        hashlib.md5(metadatas['email'].lower()).hexdigest()
+                        hashlib.md5(metadata['email'].lower()).hexdigest()
-        metadatas["author_gravatar"] = gravatar_url
+        metadata["author_gravatar"] = gravatar_url
     
-    
+
-signal('pelican_article_generate_context').connect(add_gravatar)
+def register():    
+    signal('pelican_article_generate_context').connect(add_gravatar)

pelican/plugins/initialized.py

@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ from blinker import signal
 def test(sender):
     print "%s initialized !!" % sender
 
-signal('pelican_initialized').connect(test)
+def register():
+    signal('pelican_initialized').connect(test)