Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
On 15.08.2013 12:00, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
I noticed a changed workflow compared to former days and I am redirected
now to the webpage where I can download the extension.
The update of an extension should work like the update of the extension
"Watching Window" from 0.4.4 to 0.5.0. ...
For the English dictionary I need to download manually the new
extension. Then I need to install it manually.
The exception here is "Watching Window", that uses custom updates. The
English dictionary behaves like virtually all other extensions. I give
some more details for those who are unfamiliar with the extensions
packaging.
Whoever packaged the English dictionary back in 2010 made the (right)
choice to leave to the Extensions site the responsibility to manage
updates. "Watching Window", instead, specifies its own update feed, that
lives on Github; but this is a more fragile setup; for example, I've
seen countless mentions of this problem (for the OxygenOffice gallery
extension, that specified its own update feed but then moved it...) over
the years: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31360
If you specify (and host) your own update feed, you can choose the
update policy (direct or indirect download); if you don't, the
Extensions site manages everything for you and you, as the extension
maintainer, can't choose between direct and indirect download.
So what is under discussion here is not whether the 2010 maintainer of
the English dictionary made the right choice in relying on the generic
update feed (he did; otherwise I wouldn't have been able to republish
his extension and push updates), but is that the generic update feed on
the Extensions site is configured to serve updates as indirect downloads
and not as direct downloads.
Regards,
Andrea.
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