if gz:
            bin = gzip_decode(bin)
        if decode:
            return bin.decode("utf-8", errors='ignore')
        else:
            return str(bin)
    except:
        log_WARN("get_data() didn't find:", fn, "in", file_base)
        pass#log_WARN("get_data() didn't find:", fn, "in", file_base)



# Plugin name lookup
# ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
# Search through ./plugins/ (and other configured plugin_base
# names or paths) and get module basenames.

    # Try via pkgutil first,
    # find any plugins.* modules, or main packages
    if module:
       fn = module
       for base in plugin_base + extra_base:
           try:
               src = get_data(fn+".py", decode=True, file_base=base)
               src = get_data(fn=fn+".py", decode=True, file_base=base)
               if src: break
           except:
               continue  # plugin_meta_extract() will print a notice later

    # Real filename/path
    elif fn and os.path.exists(fn):
        src = open(fn).read(4096)

#
class dependency(object):

    # prepare list of known plugins and versions
    def __init__(self):
        self.have = all_plugin_meta()
        # dependencies on core modules are somewhat more interesting:
        self.have.update({
            "streamtuner2": plugin_meta(module="st2", extra_base=["config"]),
            "uikit": plugin_meta(module="uikit", extra_base=["config"]),
            "config": plugin_meta(module="config", extra_base=["config"]),
            "action": plugin_meta(module="action", extra_base=["config"]),
        for name in ("st2", "uikit", "config", "action"):
            self.have[name] = plugin_meta(module=name, extra_base=["config"])
        })
        self.have["streamtuner2"] = self.have["st2"]
    have = {}

    # depends:    
    def depends(self, plugin):
        if plugin.get("depends"):
            d = self.deps(plugin["depends"])
            if not self.cmp(d, self.have):