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[Moises Kirsch]

How about doing something similar to sourceforge where you keep all
the versions, bugs, instructions, descriptions, etc.

This way you could keep track of everything.

Just an idea...

Moises

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:47:48 -0700, Jason goldsmith <unteins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, to clarify two points about the XMLRPC idea
> 
> 1) It is implemented AS A PLUGIN therefore it isn't spyware since it
> tells you up front exactly what it is doing, which is reporting to a
> central server what plugins you have installed (without any
> identifying information about you) and active. The plugin would send
> the plugin info to the central DB so that others could find it,
> solving the problem of developers not taking the time to broadly
> advertise their plugins. It wouldn't be difficult to allow developers
> to add an additional piece in the comments to disallow this as well
> like AutoDiscover: False
> 
> 2) Since the XMLRPC idea doesn't upload the plugins themselves, it
> uses the Plugin URI data in the plugin header to point back to
> whatever URL the plugin author has decided to provide, the plugin
> author can still drive the users to their own site. In fact, the
> XMLRPC setup could be designed in such a way as to require an
> additional parameter like Install URI which is optional and would be
> needed to allow automatic installations. If a plugin author chose not
> to include it, then the users would have to go to the author's website
> in order to get the plugin.
> 
> >From past experience I know that it is nearly impossible to have a
> central repository of plugins that is maintained purely by the
> voluntary effort of plugin developers. Plugin developers like to write
> code, they don't want to go update 17 different websites to keep them
> all up to date....
> 
> 
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