Re: [gedit-list] Plugin installation method

[Stuart Axon <stuaxo2 yahoo com>]

> To: gedit-list gnome org
> Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 7:11:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [gedit-list] Plugin installation method
> 
> 

Tom Metro-20 wrote:
> 
> If you pursue this, my 
> recommendation would be to avoid inventing 
> another packaging format. 
> Pick .deb or .rpm, as you can get 
> cross-distribution, if not 
> cross-platform, tools for manipulating them.
> 
Yes, I would keep it 
> simple.  My thought is to simply respond to a tar file
(for 
> example,
http://gedit-click-config.googlecode.com/files/Click_Config-1.1.1.tar.gz)
containing 
> the .gedit-plugin file plus whatever else should be in the
plugins 
> folder.  It could be made more flexible by also handling other
archive 
> formats or containers.

Being able to do this from simple archives sounds useful, if you want to integrate
with the packaging of the distro, then Packagekit can do this for Linux distros
(it is already used by media players to install codecs).