Plugin factory

[David-Baddeley]

Adds a factory for templating user plugins. Should ultimately replace https://github.com/python-microscopy/pyme-plugin, which has suffered a bit from bitrot. Main differences to https://github.com/python-microscopy/pyme-plugin:

• uses new (current) module config which puts all the module related config stuff in one .yaml file rather than spread across many text files
• avoids having to manually change package_name in umpteen places
• has example code for the various plugin types, rather than just empty files.

Usage

python -m PYME.util.plugin_factory output_directory package_name

Defaults to creating all types of plugin (except reports), but that can be altered with optional command line flags:

usage: plugin_factory.py [-h] [--pymeimage PYMEIMAGE] [--pymevis PYMEVIS] [--recipe RECIPE] [--fit_factories FIT_FACTORIES] [--reports REPORTS] output_dir package_name

Create a template for a PYME plugin

positional arguments:
  output_dir            Directory to write the plugin template to
  package_name          Name of the package

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --pymeimage PYMEIMAGE
                        Create a PYMEImage plugin with the given name
  --pymevis PYMEVIS     Create a PYMEVisualize plugin with the given name
  --recipe RECIPE       Create a recipe module with the given name
  --fit_factories FIT_FACTORIES
                        Create a fit factory with the given name
  --reports REPORTS     Create a reports module with the given name

[csoeller]

Just checking the status of this PR. I had a couple of people asking me about plugin writing and was wondering how far this PR is from becoming the preferred approach to get into it.

PS - WIth setuptools phase out this may ultimately need updating to the replacement build system but presumably still some time away??

[csoeller]

To answer my own question - the factory is 99% functional but needs some tweaks to fix typos and other small glitches. I'll try to some up with patches and raise a PR against the parent branch of this PR if I can figure this out...