Editing Quickstart:Customise EPrints (section)

== Extending ==
<p>If you find youself wanting additional functionality in EPrints, you may find it's something that someone else has also needed. To allow customisations to be transferred simply between EPrints systems we have Ingredients that can be added to your system, some functionality may also only be available through the legacy EPM/Bazaar Plugins system.
=== Ingredients ===
<p>The main purpose of ingredients is to allow complex functionality to be developed but deployed in a self contained manner, that does not impact the existing core codebase.</p>
<p>Typically, an ingredient would be deployed by checking out a tagged version of the Git repository for that ingredient on GitHub into the ingredients directory <code>/opt/eprints3/ingredients/</code>.</p>
<p>With the files ready, the ingredient then needs to be installed into the system, see our [[Installing Ingredients | Installing Ingredients Guide]] for more details</p>

=== EPMs/Bazaar Plugins ===
<p>Now mostly superceeded by Ingredients, in previous versions of EPrints the Bazaar was the preferred method of extending the functionality of an EPrints system. You may find some functionality still requires you install an EPM package from the Bazaar.</p>
<p>You can find more information on installing an EPM on our [[Installing an EPM |Installing an EPM]] page.