another possibility is that dqsd could set an environmental variable at
install (call it dqsddir). then you could unzip into %dqsddir%\extensions
or something... no??
JB
I guess NSIS can fetch the info in the registry. For instance,
winamp's plug-ins (like AVS presets at
FWIW, i think you are on to something Glenn. the question then becomes, how
do other apps allow extensions/plug-ins? does anyone know how x-teq x-setup
does it? (www.xteq.com)
JB
I'd sure like to hear others thoughts about this.
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FWIW, i think you
: [DQSD-Users] [ dqsd-Feature Requests-562098 ] allow for
optional extensions
FWIW, i think you are on to something Glenn. the question then
becomes, how
do other apps allow extensions/plug-ins? does anyone know how
x-teq x-setup
does it? (www.xteq.com)
JB
I'd sure like to hear others
Sounds good to me.. The extensions could be bundled as
self-extracting zip archives, making them easy to overlay
into the DQSD tree. (provided the user can specify where
this is, I dont have DQSD installed in C:\program files\..)
I thought so too, but I'm not sure this is possible with
-Users] [ dqsd-Feature Requests-562098 ] allow for
optional extensions
I didn't know anything about xteq... pretty interesting.
Here's what I'm thinking right now...
- have an extensions subdirectory
- in the extensions subdir have a single .xml for each extension
- any extraneous files needed
Sounds good. But can these XML files contain all the functionality needed
(or links to the files that contain the functionality needed)? What I
mean
is this... can the XML files contain links to the other files (like .js
files)?
I think so. Currently our search XML files typically only
so does ZipCentral (cool freeware zip util) http://zipcentral.iscool.net/
I can confirm that zipmagic allows the user to specify
a target directory for the extraction, and the user is
asked to confirm/override the default target directory
when the archive is unpacked...
FWIW, I actually like plug-in as that seems to be the more common term that
I see anymore.
JB
A minor question... I keep waffling between 'extensions' and 'packages'
because of my Unix and Emacs influence in my earlier days. Anyone prefer
using 'packages' instead of 'extensions' (if we add
