Thank you Jeremy! This sounds more than terrific! For instance, in a school setting, the administrator might set up a TW > plugin library that contains course materials. By dragging and dropping a > single tiddler, individuals can then connect to that library and import its > resources. >
Hm, extremely interesting. Does this mean vanilla TW5 can do what I believe otherwise only the node.js version can do, i.e to momentarily/session-wise import tiddlers? Or maybe we are talking about the node.js version to begin with? > And, actually, I'm not really sure what defines a plugin > > A plugin is a bundle of tiddlers packed together into a single tiddler. > Plugins can be manipulated (imported, enabled, copied etc) as a unit, but > manifest themselves as their individual tiddlers appearing as shadow > tiddlers. > Ah, great! Is it correct that we currently do not have a simple way to bundle up arbitrary tiddlers into a plugin? Also... and I'm digressing here but: I'm investigating the terminology we're using for things in TW. Is "plugin" a carefully picked term here or really of more spontaneous origin? The thing is, I'm beginning to be concerned that the eventual Federation will need a very strict and carefully chosen terminology to minimize confusion because I expect the Federation to be a boost for community growth attracting people with niche interests that are not as interested in TW per se but more in a particular Application for TW (e.g "authoring books" or "course material management") or particular Content (e.g "folk music", "Harry Potter",...). In other words, I think sub-communities will form and for, particularly, such "Application Communities", then we had better use a well defined lingo so to minimize confusion in the interaction. I may sound overly optimistic in this but I believe TW will be very big one day and nomenclature matters had better be straightened out before this day. So, again, is "plugin" - as opposed to "addon" (add-on?), "extension", "bundle" and other terminology the best term for our case here? I'm in no way implying that it is not, I'm merely asking. Thank you again Jeremy <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c36cb137-8f7f-4bee-9dd4-4463b134340b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
