Plugins having build issues as of 05/06/2019

[magikstm]

I tested each plugins separately and here’s the list of those that don’t build on Download Caddy :
tls.dns.cloudxns - @matt
tls.dns.dnsmadeeasy - @matt
tls.dns.dnspod - @matt
http.authz - Build issues on caddyserver.com · Issue #1 · casbin/caddy-authz · GitHub - Fixed 05/06/2019
http.awses - Build issues on caddyserver.com · Issue #3 · miquella/caddy-awses · GitHub
http.geoip - Build issues on caddyserver.com · Issue #14 · aablinov/caddy-geoip · GitHub
http.locale - Build issues on caddyserver.com · Issue #6 · simia-tech/caddy-locale · GitHub

I believe last 4 could be corrected by using a valid release version tag in the form v0.1.0 or v1.0.0.

I’m unsure on the 3 dns provider plugins.

Ref: Plugin authors: Please deploy at semantic version tags or specific commits

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Ohhhh thank you for doing this!!! I will take a look at the DNS provider plugins. (Maintaining those is such a pain. I need to improve that…)

I just haven’t gotten around to contacting each plugin author yet so thank you for opening those issues!

[magikstm]

Would these be merged into a single one if the change discussed here is applied?

Poll: We can end DNS provider plugins. Should we?

Years ago when the DNS challenge was originally implemented in Caddy, compatibility with each DNS provider had to be a plugin, but that’s no longer the case. We have the option of making all of lego’s ~50 DNS providers just work for all Caddy instances without needing special builds of Caddy. However. Doing this will approximately double Caddy’s binary size from ~19 MB to ~40 MB. Advantages of eliminating DNS provider plugins No need for custom builds just to support the DNS challenge Less…

Is it planned in the near future?

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Probably not, but I want to make a way to deploy a whole batch of plugins at once.

Also, the whole thing about “one plugin per repo” (which I fudged on with the DNS provider plugins since they’re so small and similar) might go away now that we’ve switched to Go modules. Will have to look into it more.