Item13391: CLI extension installer fails with Can't call method "addChild" on an undefined value

Can't call method "addChild" on an undefined value at /var/www/foswiki/distro/core/lib/Foswiki/Configure/Package.pm line 456.

tools/extender.pl doesn't load and pass along the $spec, and has no way to save the configuration.

-- GeorgeClark - 02 May 2015

I think the solution here might be to change tools/extender.pl to call the wizard to install extensions:

tools/configure -save -wizard InstallExtensions -method add -args ControlWikiWordPlugin=Foswiki.org

Works fine, but with one change. Package.pm incorrectly locates the lib directory when run from tools/configure The issue is that lib/setlib.cfg is not executed, and $Foswiki::foswikiLibPath configuration is not set.

-- GeorgeClark - 02 May 2015

Crawford, I checked in some major changes to extender.pl and some to tools/configure as well, See the Item13391 branch. Most of it is probably very safe, but wasn't sure if you wanted the tools/configure change that changes the output from dumps of perl hashes to a simple print to STDERR.

-- GeorgeClark - 03 May 2015

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