Stefan Steiniger a écrit :
> 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)
>   
Yes, that's it.
Larry says he had some problems with this plugin.
but IMHO, discovering new plugins in the project repository and 
downloading/updating them seems more useful than a local installer, 
that's why I misunderstood Landon's proposal when I read it.

Michaël
> 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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