This is a technical module to allow developers to make use of a couple of new keys in module manifests.
This is a technical module that allows developers to make use of extra keys in
module manifests. The following keys are available currently:
The following new keys are available currently:
depends_if_installed
Your module will depend on modules listed here, but only if those modules are already installed. This is useful if your module is supposed to override behavior of a third module if present, but it's not a hard dependency of your module. Think of auth_* and their interactions.
* ``depends_if_installed`` - Your module will depend on modules listed here but
only if those modules are already installed. This is useful if your module is
supposed to override the behavior of a certain module (dependencies determine
load order) but does not need it to be installed.
Usage
Usage
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* depend on this module and use the keys described above
Add this module as a dependency and use the keys described above.
Roadmap
Roadmap
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* ``breaks`` to mark some modules as being incompatible. This also could be versioned (``'breaks': ['my_module<<0.4.2']``)
* ``demo_if_installed``, ``data_if_installed``, ``qweb_if_installed`` being dicts with module names as keys and a list of files as values in order to pull some data files in case some other module is installed
* ``rdepends_if_installed`` to make another installed module depend on the current module
* ``_if_module`` on models to load certain models only if the appropriate module is installed
Add support for the following additional keys:
* ``breaks`` - Used to mark some modules as being incompatible with the
current one. This could be set up to support versioning (e.g. ``'breaks':
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