>Never underestimate the ability of the user to dork up even the most
>simple procedure. :]
I recall that users have reported needing to use three different folder
paths for the MrSID executables depending on their local setup. I wasn't
even able to help them since I couldn't duplicate their problem, but because
they were just dragging the files into folders and kept trying, they were
able to work around the problem. If there was an installer in the way, that
wouldn't be possible.
Larry
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Sunburned Surveyor <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Larry wrote: "Then again, if a plugin is so simple that a program can
> install it (i.e. has no special instructions), you probably don't need
> an installer."
>
> Never underestimate the ability of the user to dork up even the most
> simple procedure. :]
>
> I'll chew on this some more Larry. Perhaps it would be better to make
> plug-in specific installers (like you would with something like NSIS)
> instead of a global installer to avoid user confusion with unsupported
> plug-ins. It doesn't sound like most of our programmers would be
> installing more than a single jar file anyways.
>
> SS
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Stefan Steiniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > there has been an extension manager, but this one was rather for
> > downloading available plugins. the code is still there, but could be
> > that the plugin needs to be activated (in the xml file)
> >
> > stefan
> >
> > Michael Michaud schrieb:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> There used to be a plugin manager in the menu, but I cannot find it
> anymore.
> >> It was from lat/lon if I remember correctly, but I'm not sure it has
> >> ever been used the project's plugin.
> >> Anyone remember ?
> >>
> >> Michaël
> >>
> >> Sunburned Surveyor a écrit :
> >>> I've got about four plug-ins that I hope to release in January. This
> >>> includes my reader for GPX files, the latest edition of the Super
> >>> Select Tool, and a couple of Layer Utilities plug-ins.
> >>>
> >>> Some of these are simple plug-ins with a single Jar and no
> >>> dependencies. So you can just drop them into the /ext folder of
> >>> OpenJUMP. Other of my plug-ins, like the Super Select Tool and the GPX
> >>> Reader, depend on external libraries and have I18N and configuration
> >>> files. I had cooked up part of an installer for the Super Select Tool
> >>> when I got to thinking that it might be nice to have a tool that could
> >>> be used to install, uninstall, and update plug-ins for OJ. It wouldn't
> >>> have to be a part of OJ, it could even run as a separate executable.
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking of this simple interface:
> >>>
> >>> public interface PlugInHandler
> >>> {
> >>> public abstract void installPlugIn(File argOpenJumpFolder);
> >>>
> >>> public abstract void uninstallPlugIn(boolean
> argRemoveSharedLibraries);
> >>>
> >>> public abstract void updatePlugIn();
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking of another interface that could be used by
> >>> PlugInHandler.installPlugIn method implementations to show a standard
> >>> GUI to the user during plug-in installation/update:
> >>>
> >>> public class PlugInInstallerGuiProvider
> >>> {
> >>> public abstract JPanel getLicensePanel();
> >>>
> >>> public abstract JPanel getInstallConfigurationPanel();
> >>>
> >>> public abstract JPanel getAboutPanel();
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> I thought a library providing these interfaces and some default
> >>> implementations might help us standardize plug-in management and make
> >>> the process of installing and removing plug-ins a little easier on the
> >>> end user.
> >>>
> >>> Do you guys have any comments on this?
> >>>
> >>> The Sunburned Surveyor
> >>>
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