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Traditional Rails plugins should be deprecated in 3.0
#3127
Continuing from my previous ticket #3126 the
entire plugin infrastructure should be deprecated in Rails 3.0 and
removed in Rails 3.1, replacing it with the gem loading mechanism
for incorporating reusable extensions.
I'm sure it's not as easy as all that -- I reckon there's
currently a few things that plugins do which aren't supported with
the gem loading infrastructure -- but there's a huge win from
getting everything to use a package management system which
supports versioning and dependencies.
Deprecation messages in 3.0 will encourage plugin authors to
replace their existing plugins with gems, which is definitely for
the win.
