Philip Meyer;361626 Wrote: > > I added Erlands repository to the plugin installer, but after that I > didn't know what to do next. I couldn't see a list of plugins to > install - is this because I'd already downloaded and installed the old > way, and thus it didn't list the plugins? > You will need to remove any manually installed plugins in the "Plugins" directory first. If they are already installed, they will be shown as already installed plugins in the "Extension Downloader" section of SqueezeCenter settings.
Philip Meyer;361626 Wrote: > I prefer the old way anyway, as I often need to clear the cache and > don't want to have to remember what plugins I have to reinstall each > time. I can see your point, but you are probably not the typical user. I suspect the typical user never deletes the Cache directory manually. I really love this new extension installer, for my living room setup I no longer have to copy files over the network to the correct place and unzip them. Now I can just check a few checkboxes in the SqueezeCenter settings page and everything is downloaded and installed or upgraded. Whenever there is a new plugin version available I just goto the SqueezeCenter web interface, check a checkbox and everything is automatically installed. The only thing that would make this perfect is if SqueezeCenter also was restarted automatically. For the development setup on the other hand, I haven't figured out a good way to use this yet. In that setup I often clear the Cache directory and I also have several different installations of SqueezeCenter that points to the same plugins using Linux soft links. In this setup it might help if it was possible to specify the "Cache/InstalledPlugins" directory as a command line parameter during startup in similar way as you can specify --cachedir and --prefsdir as startup parameters today. However, I suspect I'm going to continue to use the old "Plugins" directory in the development setup for my own plugins and just use Extension Downloader for other third party plugins. Triode, would it be a good idea to remember (through preferences) which plugins that has been previously installed even if they don't exist in the Cache/InstalledPlugins directory ? This way a user can delete the Cache directory and goto Extension Downloader and select to install previously installed plugins ? Of course, manually deleting the Cache directory shouldn't be needed at all for 99% of the users. If this is needed for users that isn't using their setup for development it feels like a bug to me. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54805 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
