The official addons should have the same reliability as now. We did have problems in the past when moving from J6 to J7/J8, but those seem to be ironed out now.
We won't have the same control over private repos, and this may be a concern. I think we should just monitor the situation to start off with. Later on we could keep a list of what works and what doesn't. On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > This looks like a good idea. > > The one suggestion I would have is that this makes it easy to install > broken stuff. Of course, we have already had breakages with system > upgrades - interface changes or removed dependencies can show up as > addons not working right. It might be nice to have a way of marking > addons as broken, either with a todo/fixme note or maybe just a > documented way of deleting them? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:49 PM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > (This is cross posted to general and programming - please send any > comments > > to general.) > > > > We plan to move the addons source from SVN to github, and at the same > time > > support installs from personal github repos outside the main addons > source. > > See code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/GitHub . > > > > We have this working now, but would appreciate comments before going > ahead, > > thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
