I banged on about installing plugins into the cachedir before. It doesn't seem like a good place to put them. Plugins chosen to be downloaded through the settings page would be more appropriate in the prefs dir (which is also writeable and not transitory). A new change puts player current playlists into the prefs dir, which seem more appropriate for the cache dir.
I suggested a while back that an additional property could be added to plugin metadata - something like maxTestedVersion, leaving maxVersion set to *. ED could allow a plugin to be installed exceeding maxTestedVersion (perhaps with a warning, and highlight these plugins in the installed plugins list), but not exceed maxVersion. i.e. a maxVersion would indicate that the plugin author knows that the plugin would not work above that version, whereas maxTestedVersion the plugin author knows it works up to that version and may also work in future versions but it is untested. It would also be possible to set maxTestedVersion=7.3.4, and maxVersion=7.9, such that it could be installed without warning up to version 7.3.4, installed with warning above 7.3.4, but not installed in 8.0. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
