Can't find installed plugin

[actuday6418]

First off, I'm new to Nushell, so there might something stupid I'm doing.
I installed packer.nu following the readme and added this plugin just to check that I can install packages. However, the command that's supposed to be installed with that plugin is not available.

[Jan9103]

Hi,
that plugin uses nushells plugin system, which is completely separate from packer.nu's packages.
To register a plugin you have to download the compiled version (or in this case compile it yourself) (i would recommend putting all plugins into a dedicated directory instead of leaving them in Downloads) and then register it via register /absolute/path/to/plugin (which only sometimes works for me) and finally restart nushell.
I thought about adding support for managing plugins via packer in the past, but decided to wait for version 2 and now decided to drop version 2 in favor of the official packagemanager (which is in its very early stages)

The reason why both packer and plugins exist is their different use cases:

Packer: runs directly inside nushell and can offer

• tab-completion
• simple custom commands
• aliases
• shell prompts

plugins: external programs with integration for nushells datatypes:

• potentially better performance (especially since it can be written in rust, etc instead of nu-script)
• can read and write nushell data
• can't offer tab-completion, aliases, themes, shell prompts, etc (or at least not properly)

You can find a list of (some) packer packages in the wiki

It might be a good idea for me to add an error-message for when a package is not recognized as one.