Hi Jed

> The local information about available plugins didn't update when there were 
> updates in the library.

Do you mean that you made updates to the library and that they didn’t 
automatically show up in the browser? I think it’d be a hard problem to make it 
make it do that without some kind of explicit reload (either of the page, or 
within the plugin library UI itself).

> Since I am so inconsistent about when I update things this is a problem. I 
> had looked into a way to solve this a while ago and made an attempt to create 
> something that closes and re-opens a library to refresh it but I didn't know 
> how any of it worked so I stopped. This was a few months ago, now that I have 
> a better idea of how things work I maybe able to make something but I am 
> attempting to limit myself to only a few projects at a time (currently the 
> simple TWederation work, the SnapSVG tool and the resume edition). Hopefully 
> since Tobias is being much more active with the plugin libraries than I ever 
> was he will create clean ways to reload a library and take care of the 
> problems I had.

For plugin libraries, I think it’s not a huge problem for end users to have to 
reload their TW in order to see updates made to a library. I can see it’s an 
issue in development for plugin library maintainers, but for end users I’m not 
sure that updates to plugin libraries are frequent enough for it to be a 
problem.

For me, it’s only when we look at TWederation that we need to fix the problem 
by providing a means to reload an embedded server (which is what we might call 
the contents of an iframe in TWederation; it’s not necessarily a TiddlyWiki, as 
the plugin library shows). I think it’s a critical part of the mechanisms that 
we need to introduce to implement TWederation. To be clear, when we’re done, 
the existing plugin library will be a thin layer over the top of a generic 
federation layer. In other words, we need to refactor the existing plugin 
library code for the ultimate implementation of federation. That’s not 
something we need to worry too much about now, it’s more important to speed up 
the experiments you’re doing on the UI around federation.

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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