Larry wrote: "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."
I think we could write the tool to detect "compatible" and
"non-compatible" plug-ins, and to install each of these. So,
"non-compatible" plug-ins would be installed simply by having the tool
copy them to the /ext directory.
Just a thought.
SS
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Larry Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>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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