I second that idea, this would be more like recent/modern software.
On Apr 17, 2011 2:03 PM, "Jared Jennings" <
jaredljennings gmail com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response Gabriel and the good points.
>
> I have read that and I believe we want to use some of the same concepts. We
> were thinking of allow users to search and install Add-ins from the UI. This
> would save some users the hassle of downloading and knowing where to install
> the Add-In. Does Banshee support something like this from the client or
> server side?
>
> Obviously some users would want to manually install Add-ins while other
> users just want to search, pick and click install <G>
>
> -Jared
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Gabriel Burt <
gabriel burt gmail com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jared,
>>
>> I assume you've read
http://banshee.fm/contribute/write-extensions/>> thoroughly, right? As it says, Banshee Community Extensions's (BCE)
>> git repo is hosted on gitorious, which is free. Alternatively you
>> could use github.
>>
>> BCE has a few key elements:
>>
>> 1) Extensions don't have to be universally useful or super polished,
>> and anybody can make an account on gitorious (or github) and get added
>> to the BCE repo easily (vs hosting on GNOME git)
>>
>> 2) We have a create-extension script (plus a maintenance team) that
>> does everything needed to create a working extension ready for
>> committing to the repo.
>>
>> 3) Having all these extensions centralized in one repo lets us A) make
>> sure they build against the latest Banshee, if there are API breaks
>> B) share autoconf/automake boringness C) distribute them all in one
>> tarball, which makes it much easier for packagers
>>
>> Feel free to copy this approach and any of our code, it's all FOSS.
>> Let us know if you have further questions.
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Jared Jennings
>> <
jaredljennings gmail com> wrote:
>> > The Tomboy team is kicking around the idea of building a Add-Ins
>> repository
>> > and we were wondering if we could get some insight from the Banshee
>> team. We
>> > think we would like to mimic how Banshee is doing it now. It's simple,
>> easy
>> > for the user and not too difficult for a developer. Is this something
>> that
>> > could even be hosted by you?
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -Jared
>> >
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