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On 2011-07-21 20:41, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
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type="cite">On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Stefan Löffler <span
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href="mailto:st.loeffler@gmail.com">st.loeffler@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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On 2011-07-19 01:47, Paul A Norman wrote:<br>
> To help people find scripts, I just wanted to run past
people that I<br>
> would like to link back into individual
(current/active) scripts on<br>
> the issues page (261)<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=261&can=5"
target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=261&can=5</a><br>
> from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://TwScript.PaulANorman.info" target="_blank">TwScript.PaulANorman.info</a><br>
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awesome :).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Does any one have any objections please?<br>
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Not from me ;). I'll need to clean up some stuff there, but
possibly<br>
I'll migrate scripts to github or similar as well for easier
maintenance...<br>
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-Stefan<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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In principle, this is a great idea. However, there are a few
problems with this (or else we'd probably have it by now ;)).<br>
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).<br>
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.<br>
And in any case, someone would have to maintain such a platform
(evaluate scripts, remove problematic ones, etc.)<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Stefan<br>
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