Class dispatcher based on distro specific plugins about sos HOT 3 CLOSED

I might be misunderstanding your comments, but I think we already have a way to do what you are looking for. In order to support a 'general' plugin for Ubuntu a few things need to happen:

First a ubuntu Policy class must be defined in order to identify a Ubuntu system (and abstract away the package manager bits). See How To Write a Policy for more info (though this page is certainly lacking.)

Secondly, a second class should be defined in the general.py module and be tagged with a UbuntuPlugin tagging class (which also needs to be defined and used by the Ubuntu policy class.)

Another bit to notice is the .name() method that each plugin class now has. If you have several implementations of a plugin (one per distro for example), you can refer to whichever one loaded by the same name as long as you define the name() method in each subclass and have it return the name you would like to use. Something like this:

class myPlugin(RedHatPlugin, Plugin):
    def name(self):
        return "myplugin"

class myUbuntuPlugin(UbuntuPlugin, Plugin):
    def name(self):
        return "myplugin"

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Ah ok let me look into that more and ill close this bug out if i can get it working.

Thanks!

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Can subclass additional policies for separation of plugins per distro

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