[tomboy-list] About addin repository,

[Robert Nordan]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 07:05 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Jared <jaredljennings at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We were thinking of making an interface inside of tomboy. So it would download and install all from tomboy.
> >
> > Jared
> 
> Distributions like Ubuntu will patch out that functionality like they
> did with firefox. I was just trying to help you avoid that.

I think they would only patch out auto-updaters (like in Firefox)
because autoupdating applications could break their promise of stability
for LTS releases and so on. Add-in downloads shouldn't be a problem
since add-ins are an external thing anyway, and they haven't patched it
out in Monodevelop or Eclipse (the two things I could think of off the
top of my head). If there's any doubt someone can always mail the
ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com mailing list (set as package
maintainer for Ubuntu) and ask.

/Robert N

> 
> > On Apr 12, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder at computer.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Luc Pionchon <pionchon.luc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> About addin repository,
> >>> I updated the Add-ins page [1] with direct links to screen-shots and
> >>> dll, hopefully making it easier for end-users to get what they need.
> >>> One site is dead (404). A few Add-ins don't provide binary, and source
> >>> code is stored in various ways. Also I am wondering about binaries
> >>> from various external web sites, it sounds like a potential security
> >>> risk.
> >>>
> >>> [1] https://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PluginList
> >>>
> >>> About source code repository, whereas it is at  tomboy/Tomboy/Addins,
> >>> tomboy/contribs, or in a new module tomboy-addins is up to you. In any
> >>> case it would be great benefit to centralize addins @GNOME (when the
> >>> author wishes so).
> >>>
> >>> The main point is to get them packaged all together by linux
> >>> distributions. Note: Ubuntu has official packages for
> >>> tomboy-blogposter and tomboy-latex. I would suggest something like
> >>> tomboy-addins, like gedit-plugins, rhythmbox-plugins,
> >>> banshee-extensions-common (*), etc.
> >>
> >> You might *seriously* consider adding support for packagekit[1] to
> >> tomboy. That way when distributions have packaged up the separate
> >> extensions, you get 1 user experience on every distro to download and
> >> install them. hughsie is the guy that wrote packagekit and is general
> >> very approachable with questions.
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.packagekit.org/
> >>
> >>
> >>> Another strong point is to get them into the gnome i18n loop,
> >>> targeting at an uniform and coherent translation between addins and
> >>> tomboy.
> >>>
> >>> And of course it eases global maintenance and gives a place to report bugs.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Overall I think there is need of someone to overlook the addins, to do
> >>> a minimum QA, facilitate integration, look at coherence between addins
> >>> and uniform UI, and hopefully get them out together with tomboy
> >>> releases.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> (*) One short note on "Add-ins" I would strongly recommend to be
> >>> uniform across the GNOME platform. Today we have addins, addons,
> >>> plugins, extensions (...)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This would be for the best benefit of tomboy users, and tomboy itself
> >>>
> >>> Luc
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jeff Schroeder
> >>
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