On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > In terms of plugin distribution, I've come to believe that the present > scattered nature of TiddlyWiki makes things needlessly hard for users. > They have to find tiddlywiki.com, download the product, and then by > reading the groups they have to figure out the sites that they need to > visit to get the basic plugins that everyone relies on. > > So, for TW5, I'm interested in developing the idea of "core plugins" > written by the community that become part of the standard distribution > of tiddlywiki. You're not the first person to say "such and such a > plugin is so incredibly useful that it should be in the core". The > community tends to interpret it as a suggestion that the plugin or > feature becomes part of the core code, because we don't have any other > unit of distribution. And then it becomes a consideration of bytes vs. > benefits, and the generality of the feature. I think we can avoid all > of that by introducing the idea of the tiddlywiki distribution being > made up of the core code plus a bunch of plugins evolved by the > community.
That, together with the manual that was recently suggested would be fantastic. The amazingly flexible-adaptable TW would remain amazingly flexible-adaptable. The amazingly creative TW developer community could continue to find ways to exploit the amazing flexibility-adapatability. And it would all be MUCH more accessible to ordinary users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir "Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
