On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:07 PM, fc wrote:

> I'm happy to see that several people are seem to be updating and
> developing new plugins. After trawling around the various forks i've
> found that versioning and usage instructions within the QS plugin gui
> are useless at times because the date of the plugin release is usually
> not updated and usage instructions in the plugins info pane are often
> missing. The new and wonderful remote host module is the exception in
> this regard.

Thanks! Glad you like it. (It was updated yesterday, FYI.) Although, I’ve never 
done anything with the date, so that must be automatic. If you mean that the 
interface in QS isn’t telling you about new plug-ins, that’s because it’s 
pointing to a URL wholly unrelated to where plug-in development is currently 
happening. People are aware of that, but there’s no fix coming any time soon as 
far as I know. You just have to go out and look for new plug-ins right now.

I’ve added a note to the plug-in reference I’m working on to encourage 
documentation.

Coincidentally, I was going to post a message today asking if one of the owners 
of this group could add something to the FAQ, like “How do I get the latest 
stuff?”.

Unless you’ve been following here for months, you really wouldn’t know that ß57 
is available from GitHub (or that it even exists). And if I hadn’t just 
happened to look at the “downloads” section of a fork of blacktree-elements, I 
would have no idea that certain plug-ins had been fixed or updated. And maybe 
there are places out there other than GitHub worth mentioning?

Is this process of staying up to date pretty manual and horrible at the moment? 
Sure, but it doesn’t need to be horrible *and* obscure. :)

-- 
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>

Don't try to tell me a thing is important to you if the whole of your “support” 
entails forcing others to spend time and money on it.

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