I think there's a bug in the Extension Downloader page. I haven't played with this much, because I have many plugins already installed manually, and I'm not going to uninstall them just to install them again in the wrong place. However, I thought this was worth reporting:
I added Erlands repositry: http://erlandplugins.googlecode.com/svn/repository/trunk/latest.xml and pressed return - it said it had saved changes. I didn't get anything listed on the Extension Downloader page. I pressed the Apply button and refreshed the page, just to make sure. Still nothing. I added another repositry: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/slim7/repodata.xml. Finally I got a list of plugins that I could choose to install, plus those that were already installed. I believe I have all of Erlands plugins installed, so it looks like if there are no plugins that can be installed, then installed plugins are not listed either? Some more comments: 1. Author - for Erland's installed plugins, the author is not listed. It knows there are plugins available, and I assume he has put his name in the repositry xml file, so why not display it? 2. The version isn't displayed for manually installed plugins. It would be useful to show the currently installed version, and the version available from the repositry. 3. Why can't manually installed plugins be uninstalled/updated through the Extension Downloader? Surely all it needs to do is delete a plugin folder, and unzip the new content to a folder? If the original plugin folder can't be deleted, then report that it can't be uninstalled/updated automatically. 4. Is there any recommended standardisation for the Author name? eg. "Firstname Lastname", "Lastname, Firstname", forum user name? 5. Do plugins only get listed as available if they are appropriate? eg. if the SC version is outside of defined min/max plugin version limits, is a plugin listed? What if there are multiple versions of a plugin for different versions of SC? Is each one listed, or only the most appropriate version? 6. Can a plugin have dependencies? eg. Only allow "TitleSwitcher" plugin to be installed if "MusicInfoSCR" is installed? I'm going to have a go at creating a repositry for my plugins later. What's the latest status of this? Do I need to host it on my website and add the repositry link to the wiki page? Will the page automatically be parsed to pre-load the repositries into SC? Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
