Hi, I think that the addon management deserves a better place in Blender. Until now, the official way to download an addon is to go to an obscure page in the wiki, find a link to download a zip or py file, search for this file from the user preferences within Blender... It's okay, but today people are used to install apps from stores without worrying about technical steps.
I made a small proof of concept for such a store for addons. You can find it here: https://github.com/Bloutiouf/blender-addon-registry It basically simplify the download & installation, or removal, of addons. It can also update all addons that have a newer version available. And as some companies may want to keep private addons, it's possible to create private registries. As I said it's a POC. While it can stay an addon, I'd really like that you (Blender devs) consider integrating this feature into Blender, so that my plugin doesn't have to exist anymore. That is also why I didn't make a real publication system: I imagine that you'll make a site like https://addons.blender.org with accounts, addon staring, etc. and hopefully addon hosting, because my registry just provides URLs to addons hosted elsewhere. I'd be happy to help you make this ecosystem if you want to! Otherwise, feel free to give feedback. Cheers, Jo
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