Re: epiphany plugins



On Sun, 2005-17-04 at 17:29 -0400, Britt Selvitelle wrote:
> On 4/17/05, Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> wrote:
> > I wonder, if the number of extensions keeps growing at the current
> > rate... we might soon need to divide them by topic, like bookmarks! :)
> 
> I was actually just thinking about this. Should we consider moving to
> a remote installation/repository style system ala Firefox, or just
> keep them all in a package? Assuming the number could continue to grow
> larger and larger, I can't really see keeping them all together a
> viable option.

A remote repository won't work because most extensions are written in C
and are thus unportable. Distributors must solve this problem. (Python
extensions, on the other hand, are portable; we might want to do this
for those. Except Python extensions can't play around with Gecko. And
the difference between Python and C ought to be invisible to the user.)

But of course, at some point something must be done. IMO, whatever we
end up doing should be what the gnome-panel people do with the "Add to
Panel" dialog.

-- 
Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>

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