Triode;425870 Wrote: > > On the original point raised by Erland - I'm afraid I've resorted to > posting updates to my plugins for Extension Downloader only - this seems > to have worked for encouraging people to use it. As we move to a point > where authors are not targetting 7.2, I think this is a fair way to go. > Clearly we need to make it more obvious how to do it. > I think I would prefer to keep my download page since it's required if a user for some reason like to install an old version of a plugin.
Getting rid of the PAR packaging in PluginBuilder unless we really need it would also be a good idea. I think it makes plugin development a lot harder for new developers because it makes it harder to look at and copy source code from other plugins. The PluginBuilder it self also often makes it harder to create the plugin zip package because it's not easy to get the PluginBuilder to work if you are new at perl. It requires dependencies that's not easy to install and setup unless you are already familiar with perl development. The only real thing you need PluginBuilder for is to generate the unique id in install.xml and to generate the PAR package. I wonder if we really need this unique id, the plugin name itself seems pretty unique to me. The PAR packaging isn't needed at the moment, but I'm not sure if there is some future plan/vision that requires that kind of packaging. Another thing that would simplify things would be if we could merge install.xml and the repository xml section. Maybe we could automatically generate some parts of install.xml upon installation ? As an example, there have been several cases where maxVersion/minVersion in install.xml didn't match the maxTarget/minTarget entries in the repository xml. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63623 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
