Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:06:32PM +0100, Guillaume Emont wrote: > The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center > 0.5.28, code-named "Wooden Nickels".
Very nice release. I am happy with it, thanks! > This release is a "light weight" release, which means it is supposed to > be pushed to the users through our automatic plugin update system. [...] > Tarballs are provided for packagers who want to disable the automatic plugin > update system on their distribution, so that they can make new packages for > their users to be able to update (I strongly advise that, the new video > section > is worth it). I am one of the Debian Elisa maintainers and am not sure how to deal with the update system yet. I've talked about it with some of you on the IRC, but it might be better to discuss it here. It seems there are a few issues here: 1) There are plugins that are not distributed via -good, bad, or -ugly AFAIK (apple_trailers, ted, etc.). For this the plugin (update) system is essentially an installer for extra functionality that users can select. If these plugins are never pulled into -good, -bad or -ugly, they should be updated once the user installs them. Either that, or we start distributing these plugins also. 2) It might be that a user installs Elisa on a stable system, doesn't want to jump to unstable to keep track of Elisa updates and chooses to enable the plugin system (which IMO should be an option still). Once the user jumps to a new stable release, the plugins in his ~/.elisa-xxx/ are obsoleted and can be removed. Does Elisa to plugin cleaning? 3) Is Elisa aware of plugins (including the core) being not user but distribution installed? If (3) is the case, we could maybe have an mode between completely unawareness of any plugin updates at all and full plugin upgrades and access to new plugins that Elisa has now, namely a 'dist' mode where dist plugins are never upgraded, only new plugins can be installed and updated. Also plugins that become 'dist' plugins at some point can be cleaned automatically. I have no idea if this is even possible and whether this would involve a lot of work, I'm just expressing some ideas here. Your thoughts? Kind regards, Paul -- PhD Student @ Eindhoven | email: [email protected] University of Technology, The Netherlands | JID: [email protected] >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181
