[texworks] SCRIPTING: Web page Linking back into Issue 261 Scripts

Paul A Norman paul.a.norman at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 09:51:16 CEST 2011


Really appreciate what you are saying Stefan.

On 23 July 2011 18:59, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-07-21 20:41, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2011-07-19 01:47, Paul A Norman wrote:
>> > To help people find scripts, I just wanted to run past people that I
>> > would like to link back into individual (current/active) scripts on
>> > the issues page (261)
>> > http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=261&can=5
>> > from TwScript.PaulANorman.info
>>
>> awesome :).
>>
>> > Does any one have any objections please?
>>
>> Not from me ;). I'll need to clean up some stuff there, but possibly
>> I'll migrate scripts to github or similar as well for easier
>> maintenance...
>>
>> -Stefan
>
> An interesting idea for the future would be to develop a central script
> repository and a "plugin manager" inside TeXworks that makes it easy for
> users to find, download and install plugins.
>
> In principle, this is a great idea. However, there are a few problems with
> this (or else we'd probably have it by now ;)).
> First is quality management. With a central repository, it could be easy for
> people to get the impression that all those scripts are part of/endorsed by
> Tw (especially when such a repository is hosted on some official server).
> I know, things like this work for other programs (including, e.g., Mozilla
> Firefox), but Tw scripting is intended for everybody, not just hard-core
> coders, so if this picks up as intended, I guess there will always be
> scripts than have the one or other bug, don't work on some platform or
> other, etc.
> And in any case, someone would have to maintain such a platform (evaluate
> scripts, remove problematic ones, etc.)
>
> On a more technical side, this would probably be a fairly major web program
> (with upload functionality, database backend, etc.). We certainly can't host
> that on tug.org, as they don't have PHP or similar enabled AFAIK (at least
> not globally). And unless there are such websites ready-made (like for blogs
> or CMS), this would be a major undertaking.
>
> As I said at the top, I do think this is a great idea, and I really
> appreciate Paul's efforts to provide pointers to the resources we have
> scattered around. I'm just pointing out the rough edges I see.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>



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