It may be a good feature, if DokuWiki would allow more than one folder for templates and plugins.
Currently we partly (because of the bug "
FS#2372 - DOKU_TPLINC constant is ignored") can change the standard directories, where DokuWiki look for available plugins and templates. But it is not possible to have two or more different folders, e.g.
dokuwiki/
+ lib/
+ tpl/
+ default/
+ otherofficialtheme/
+ plugins/
+ plugin_a/
+ plugin_b/
extratpl/
+ myveryprivatetemplate/
extraplugins/
+ plugin_c/
+ plugin_d/
I hope you see the point, visualized by the example of a possible project structure like above. By allowing more than one folder it would be possible to have own DokuWiki installation configurations using submodules for DokuWiki core, and other submodules for author supported plugins and templates.