On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:26:59PM +0100, Michael Natterer wrote: > > As for the plugin distribution, I think the nicest way would be to have > > a plugin manager that would enable you to download plugins from the web > > on the fly. Something Linux distributions have too, you just connect to > > the server, list the available plugins, let the user select what he/she > > wants, download and install them. That would IMHO certainly be the > > nicest solution. > > Yeah, Snorfle (I think) had a quite detailled proposal about this on > his Gimp pages but I dont find it any more... :( > http://adrian.gimp.org/plugins/ maybe? Thats at least a year old now, so it's probabaly a bit dated, but alas... > We're thinking of a Server directory structure which would enable such > automatic downloads. Basically a tree like the Debian FTP servers. > The client side of this shoulkd be relatively easy to implement > (we don't really want Debian-like dependencies, do we? :-) yah, lots of ways to go. Just need to decide what our contraints are. The stuff mentioned above was intended to be as simple as possible ( ie, a shell script could make a good try as a client...). Current buzzwords would probabaly make the package descriptions xml of some sort. Binaries would be a bit different, but the basic ideas are there. Bin's also have a ton of security implications, but that can be mitigated to some degree with gpg signing, etc. Adrian
