Re: [Jgeneral] [Jprogramming] github-based addons

2018-04-11 Thread chris burke
The official addons should have the same reliability as now. We did have problems in the past when moving from J6 to J7/J8, but those seem to be ironed out now. We won't have the same control over private repos, and this may be a concern. I think we should just monitor the situation to start off

Re: [Jgeneral] [Jprogramming] github-based addons

2018-04-11 Thread Brian Schott
Is github as widely available as the current links? I ask because I believe I occasionally am warned that my browser or OS is not up to date. -- (B=) <-my sig Brian Schott -- For information about J forums see

Re: [Jgeneral] [Jprogramming] github-based addons

2018-04-11 Thread Raul Miller
This looks like a good idea. The one suggestion I would have is that this makes it easy to install broken stuff. Of course, we have already had breakages with system upgrades - interface changes or removed dependencies can show up as addons not working right. It might be nice to have a way of

[Jgeneral] github-based addons

2018-04-11 Thread chris burke
(This is cross posted to general and programming - please send any comments to general.) We plan to move the addons source from SVN to github, and at the same time support installs from personal github repos outside the main addons source. See code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/GitHub . We have this