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Have you considered a way to load plugins & spawn scripts? I've started playing with an idea how to implement.

something like:

• Add git to the base image
• User would docker cp a file that contains git urls for the plugins/spawns they want to load to the container. An alternative would be to mount a folder with the folders already in place
• modify the startup cmd by adding a script to the container startup cmd that looks for either the file or mount dir.
  • If the file with git urls is discovered pull in the git repos to hangouts plugins dir, & spawn files to a bin dir.
  • If a mounted directory: cp host_volume/plugins /etc/hangoutsbot/plugins and cp host_volume/spawns /etc/hangoutsbot/spawns
  • Then symlink folders in the volume to the hangoutsbot location.
  • Finally pip install -r any requirements in the two folders

Any concerns? is there simpler way to achieve this? Does this add too long to startup?

Bonus: as a potential solution to #1 a list of system packages could be passed to the container as well.

https://github.com/hangoutsbot/hangoutsbot/wiki/Image-Screenshot-Plugin

This plugin required a prerequsite : PhantomJS

How install it ?