[forge-dev] FSH and testing for installation of a plugin

[Dan Allen]

Perhaps the install plugin should accept a flag to ignore if already
installed. Something like:

forge install-plugin --skip-installed

-Dan

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>wrote:

> I want to install the plugin if it's not available.
>
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III <
> lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmm... you want to make sure that a plugin is installed in a FSH script.
>> Good question...
>>
>> Do you need the plugin to be available, or just installed (and possible
>> not available in the current context.) In reality, you probably really want
>> to check for the availability of the command, yes?
>>
>> I know that the shell throws errors on failure, but I'm not sure there's
>> really a good way to test for that in a FSH script without using a
>> try-catch block somehow. (Try catch would probably work, though I'm not
>> exactly sure what the syntax would look like (it depends on your script to
>> some extent.))
>>
>> ~Lincoln
>>
>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Any idea how this could be done? I could do a forge list-plugins --all
>>> and iterate over that list (I think), but there should be a better way. Any
>>> suggestions?
>>>
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