>Do you guys have any comments on this?
IMO a plugin installer would add to the confusion of plugin management,
since presumably it would only be compatible with plugins that were written
to support it.
regards,
Larry
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Sunburned Surveyor <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got about four plug-ins that I hope to release in January. This
> includes my reader for GPX files, the latest edition of the Super
> Select Tool, and a couple of Layer Utilities plug-ins.
>
> Some of these are simple plug-ins with a single Jar and no
> dependencies. So you can just drop them into the /ext folder of
> OpenJUMP. Other of my plug-ins, like the Super Select Tool and the GPX
> Reader, depend on external libraries and have I18N and configuration
> files. I had cooked up part of an installer for the Super Select Tool
> when I got to thinking that it might be nice to have a tool that could
> be used to install, uninstall, and update plug-ins for OJ. It wouldn't
> have to be a part of OJ, it could even run as a separate executable.
>
> I was thinking of this simple interface:
>
> public interface PlugInHandler
> {
> public abstract void installPlugIn(File argOpenJumpFolder);
>
> public abstract void uninstallPlugIn(boolean argRemoveSharedLibraries);
>
> public abstract void updatePlugIn();
> }
>
> I was thinking of another interface that could be used by
> PlugInHandler.installPlugIn method implementations to show a standard
> GUI to the user during plug-in installation/update:
>
> public class PlugInInstallerGuiProvider
> {
> public abstract JPanel getLicensePanel();
>
> public abstract JPanel getInstallConfigurationPanel();
>
> public abstract JPanel getAboutPanel();
> }
>
> I thought a library providing these interfaces and some default
> implementations might help us standardize plug-in management and make
> the process of installing and removing plug-ins a little easier on the
> end user.
>
> Do you guys have any comments on this?
>
> The Sunburned Surveyor
>
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