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Plugin Manager
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Module to simplify plugin instantiation and configuration. Handles plugin dispatch, config. Model is plugins are kept in hierarchy by 'category', beneath category are types:

\<package\>/plugins/\<category\>/[\<type\>/\<subtype\>]/\<name\>.py

Example:
To get an instance of a plugin class "myplugin" in module
        package/plugins/typeA/kindB/myplugin.py
that expects and integer as input to the __init__() method:
 
````
from pluginmanager import getplugin
pluginobj = getplugin(['package', 'plugins', 'typeA', 'kindB'], 'myplugin', 3)
````

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Deployment
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**As root**:

    $ git clone https://github.com/bnl-sdcc/plugin-manager.git
    $ cd plugin-manager
    $ python setup.py bdist_rpm
    $ rpm -Uhv dist/plugin-manager-<version>.noarch.rpm

**As user:**

    $ git clone https://github.com/bnl-sdcc/plugin-manager.git
    $ cd plugin-manager
    $ python setup.py install --home=$HOME
    $ export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH