On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 8:12 AM Christian Lenz <[email protected]> wrote:
> How is the contrib python plugin different from those Plugins: > http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/56795/python4netbeans802 and > http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/61688/python > > I believe these are the sources to those modules. The "plugin portal" - where you have to manually upload things - has always seemed upside down and backwards for open source plugins - it makes far more sense to poll a Jenkins server and just serve the latest version of things (and the historical ones). *Particularly* if your project is factored as a whole set of modules, it becomes a major PITA to keep stuff up-to-date - so you don't, and then your module is three versions ahead of what your users are using, and the whole thing is a mess. Which is why I wrote https://github.com/timboudreau/meta-update-center - originally I was thinking a Jenkins extension, then realized it was more powerful as a standalone server that just has a bunch of modules, knows where it got them and checks back to see if a new version is available (the http If-Modified-Since header makes this dirt cheap and needs no fancy plumbing or APIs, just HTTP requests). -Tim
