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docs(plugin): explain plugin registration #3116

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions docs/changelog/3116.doc.rst
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Explain how plugins are registered and discovered - by :user:`hashar`.
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tox uses `pluggy <https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ to customize the default behaviour. For example the
following code snippet would define a new ``--magic`` command line interface flag the user can specify:
tox uses `pluggy <https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ to customize the default behaviour. It provides an
extension mechanism for plugin management an calling hooks.

Pluggy discovers a plugin by looking up for entry-points named ``tox``, for example in a pyproject.toml:

.. code-block:: toml

[project.entry-points.tox]
your_plugin = "your_plugin.hooks"

Therefore, to start using a plugin, you solely need to install it in the same environment tox is running in and it will
be discovered via the defined entry-point (in the example above, tox will load ``your_plugin.hooks``).

A plugin is created by implementing extension points in the form of hooks. For example the following code snippet would
define a new ``--magic`` command line interface flag the user can specify:

.. code-block:: python

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