mhm.. basically I agree with Larry right now. People can get confused.
. For the external plugins they need to know only once that they need to
drag and drop or remove jar files
. For the internal plugins with have now the default-plugins.xml file
the problem with the external plugins would be
Larry wrote: IMO a plugin installer would add to the confusion of
plugin management, since presumably it would only be compatible with
plugins that were written to support it.
I think we could write the tool to detect compatible and
non-compatible plug-ins, and to install each of these. So,
True. Then again, if a plugin is so simple that a program can install it
(i.e. has no special instructions), you probably don't need an installer.
Larry
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Sunburned Surveyor
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Larry wrote: IMO a plugin installer would add to the confusion
Hi,
There used to be a plugin manager in the menu, but I cannot find it anymore.
It was from lat/lon if I remember correctly, but I'm not sure it has
ever been used the project's plugin.
Anyone remember ?
Michaël
Sunburned Surveyor a écrit :
I've got about four plug-ins that I hope to release
there has been an extension manager, but this one was rather for
downloading available plugins. the code is still there, but could be
that the plugin needs to be activated (in the xml file)
stefan
Michael Michaud schrieb:
Hi,
There used to be a plugin manager in the menu, but I cannot find
I think the extension manager was removed because it didn't work with very
many plugins. I know I had a problem with it installing the ArcSDE plugin
at one time.
Larry
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Stefan Steiniger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there has been an extension manager, but this one
Larry wrote: Then again, if a plugin is so simple that a program can
install it (i.e. has no special instructions), you probably don't need
an installer.
Never underestimate the ability of the user to dork up even the most
simple procedure. :]
I'll chew on this some more Larry. Perhaps it would
Never underestimate the ability of the user to dork up even the most
simple procedure. :]
I recall that users have reported needing to use three different folder
paths for the MrSID executables depending on their local setup. I wasn't
even able to help them since I couldn't duplicate their
Stefan Steiniger a écrit :
there has been an extension manager, but this one was rather for
downloading available plugins. the code is still there, but could be
that the plugin needs to be activated (in the xml file)
Yes, that's it.
Larry says he had some problems with this plugin.
but
Michael,
You wrote: ...discovering new plugins in the project repository and
downloading/updating them seems more useful than a local installer,
that's why I misunderstood Landon's proposal when I read it.
That was one of the ideas I had when I was thinking of the update
method in the
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