Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
>> I could imagine a main menu item
>> Plugins/Addons/Extensions whatever and a subdir like
>> .scid/plugins where all files living in that specific
>> subdir just get sourced at program startup.
>
> Plugins are out of box with Tcl (just a "source" command).
I know. But we have no canonical way to add them.
> But plugins need to be managed (versions, regressions,
> automatic updates).
They don't. You can very well just define a directroy where
one could put pieces of code to be included on startup.
There is no need to automatise update, versioning,
installation and all that. We also do not do this for scid
itself.
It would probably be an idea to have a "Help/Check for
update", that informs the user that a new version is
available. But I'd keep that to scid itself at max.
My idea for a plugin dir that gets sourced is much simpler.
Primarily, I'd also just encourage people to provide simple
extensions and write simple extensions.
> So I'd prefer to get rid of the problem at once and keep
> things simple
Your idea of keeping things simple is a bit strange to me
and I admit that I'll most likely never understand it. Most
of the time it is quite limiting. ;)
> : that is someone asking site admins at TWIC about their
> will to let applications automatically download files and
> keep their service available.
BTW: they changed it recently ;)
But this is not the point. I just imagined that some poeple
might write this or that helpfull function that could be
plugged in and that is useful for one user and another one
does not see a point in it at all. Having it as plugin could
move those functions out of scids core and probably keep
this core ahm, "simple".
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