>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. > I don't see any plugins at all in the "Extension Downloader" screen.
>I can see your point, but you are probably not the typical user. I >suspect the typical user never deletes the Cache directory manually. > It's a common helpdesk strategy to tell users to try deleting their cache folder, isn't it? Surely it would be a good idea to place plugins in a new folder, separate from the cache, because they aren't really cache items? I have set my cache folder to be D:\SqueezeCenter\Cache. If I could set my third-party plugins folder to be D:\SqueezeCenter\Plugins, I'd be happy. But I think the plugins folder should by default somewhere outside of Cache. >For the development setup on the other hand, I haven't figured out a >good way to use this yet. Also, I guess the min/max version check stuff is still in there? So when running beta SC versions, I guess I would not get the option to download plugins if they have set a max version of the last stable release, whereas I currently download plugins and tweak the install.xml file. >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. I thought there were quite a few instances of strange UI bugs with the Default skin that required the cache to be cleared. However, I guess the installer will uninstall the old version, perhaps delete the cache and then install the new version? Maybe it's only a problem for users playing with nightlies, or running from SVN. On a related matter, I was thinking of running your plugins (and my own) from their SVN repositories. However, TortoiseSVN doesn't allow checkouts from other repositories within another checkout folder. If I could move the plugin folder outside of the SqueezeCenter installation folder, then I could do this. So a plugindir preference and --plugindir startup parameter would be really useful. Phil _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
