Regarding the comment about unreliability of LMS plugins updates. The unreliability is not in LMS but in the choice (or rather lack of choice) of service to deliver the plugin ZIP files. IIRC Sourceforge is the only free service available. In the past other services have been used (e.g Google code) but one by one they have moved away from simple http/GET file serving to "custom" downloads.
Another comment is the problem seems to get worse with many repositories - that is true if the repository XML files are also hosted on Sourceforge as each repository URL may have a long delay before the XML data is delivered. Having repository (not plugins) on gitgub.io make this a non-issue - github.io only supports "text" files (e.g. xml files) - ZIP files cannot be hosted. If the problem is generalised into how should LMS plugin be updated to deal with slow/unreliable file servers where a ZIP file may take minutes to complete. I don't know the web page part of LMS so what I suggest may not be easily implementable as it would require the Plugins Tab page to be refreshed regularly - the multiple tabs on Settings page may complicate that. I think the "Restart Now Restart Later" message box should be removed and replaced by a status line/box and a Restart button on the Plugins Tab. The status line gives user feedback about status of download (e.g bytes downloaded) and success/failure. The Restart button is disabled normally and is only enabled when a plugin is in a "needs" states (e.g. install, uninstall) - if any plugin has a "needs-install" then Restart button is not enabled until downloads are complete. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112241 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
