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Module loader

Sunil Mohan Adapa requested to merge SunilMohanAdapa:module-loader into master

Created by: SunilMohanAdapa

This set of patches make writing external modules possible.

  • Modules can be written outside the plinth source tree
    • Installed in plinth.modules namespace package (PEP 420)
    • Installed in the own package and get loaded by Plinth

The changes are:

  • Load modules using configuration in /etc/plinth/modules-enabled
  • Instead of using the filename for module name, read the contents of the file. This allows for more flexible module naming and any python module can become Plinth module.
  • Use Django application loading and simply our module loading
  • Some more cleanups (box key related stuff which is not used)
  • Update documentation related Python3 switch

This branch is on top of my other two branches and @fonfon 's Django setup fixes.

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