The latest beta version of 7.3 includes functionality to simplify the
installation of plugins for SqueezeCenter and applets/wallpapers/sounds
on jive.  I'm posting here to make 7.3 users aware and hopefully try it
out and also to encourage plugin authors to publish their plugins in
the repository format used.

The installer appears in the Advanced Settings section of SqueezeCenter
as "Extension Downloader".  At the top of this page is a list of
repositories (defaults to empty).  In here you can enter the
repositories urls from your favorite plugin/applet authors.  This will
result in their plugins being listed on the lower section of the page,
from where you can select them for installation, see the currently
installed plugins and if there are upgrades available.  At present you
need to restart the server after installing a plugin, but it should
take the pain away of finding the relavent plugin and where to install
it.

Peter Watkins has started a wiki page for plugin authors to post their
plugin repos:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeCenter_Repositories
(thanks Peter).  Please try out Peter's plugins and those of other
plugin authors which get added here soon (hopefull).

[The only thing I will say is that this mechanism results in code being
automatically installed on your server, so please verify that you trust
the repo source provided on the wiki page i.e. you know the author from
their posting here.]


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