quite happy with the mess I came up with!

I made a fork (git-ssb) of ssb-plugins2 which now exports a load(pluginPath) method that can be used to create a ssb-pluginified out-of-process plugin and hacked it into the @cryptix/plugins2 branch on scuttlebot (gh/ssbc and git-ssb).

I chose to reuse the existing plugins code to get the name and collision
handling. Now, if you specifify a plugin as an object instead of a bool in your config,
it will use my ssb-plugins2/load to spawn it.

{
  "plugins": {
    "normal": true,
    "ooplug": { "location": "/abs/path/to/plug" }
  }
}

working:

• plugins spawn
• its manifest is part of sbots

bugs/todos:

• calls dont execute. i guess the name prefix has to be stripped for calls to register correctly
• load: passing sbot into the muxrpc/api results in a circular definition and stack explosion