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Move installed plugins to options.ini and deprecate kolibri_settings.json

See original GitHub issue

Currently, we use JSON, which isn’t human friendly. This was under the assumption that ConfigParser (Python 2) and configparser (Python 3) would be terrible to try and unify. However, it turns out there’s a backport of Python 3’s configparser for Python 2:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/configparser

@rtibbles you asked about .ini files, thanks for reminding me about this 😃

New ini-based configuration - introduced in #3607
Option for well-known + auto-enabled plugins
Do not store values directly for appending to INSTALLED_APPS, instead rename configuration option to PLUGINS and use module names. This avoids problems with application configs and can minimize the work done when checking if a plugin exists #1902