Way to go for new builder implementation

[Marc Falzon]

Hello,

I'm about to start implementing a new builder, and upon reading the official documentation I've learned about Packer's plugins but I am a bit confused as to if it is the official way to implement new functionalities to Packer nowadays: are contributors expected to implement support for new builders/post-processors/etc as "community" plugins in external repositories (pretty much as Terraform does for providers), or to submit pull requests to the official Packer project's repository? I'm asking this because in the list of community builders the vSphere one is marked as deprecated as it's been "merged into official Packer repository and released with Packer since version 1.5.2".

Cheers,

m.

[Megan Marsh]

Good question. Moving forward, the vast majority of builders are going to be community-based like Terraform does. VSphere got merged because we already head VMWare support and we're hoping to clean up the official support for VMWare. It was easier to merge that particular builder and keep working on it instead of duplicating work internally. But for most builders, especially ones that don't already have some kind of support inside the Packer core, "community" is how it's going to go. 

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[Marc Falzon]

Thank you for this clarification, I will proceed this way then.

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