Re: [gedit-list] Plugin installation method

[Tom Metro <tmetro+gedit gmail com>]

DerekVeit wrote:
> My thought is to simply respond to a tar file...

That sounds fine until the first time you need a post-install script, 
and then you're back to inventing a more capable packaging system.

Such a need may never materialize, though layering on top of .deb files 
may be no more work than using tar.

(Would this need to work on Windows? A post-install script is not likely 
to work on that platform, without having a shell or cygwin installed.)


> It could be made more flexible by also handling other
> archive formats or containers.

I don't see any need to handle multiple formats. Once you've picked one, 
keep it simple and make that the only format.

A distribution can always wrap or repackage a plugin in a native format, 
and use existing mechanisms (outside of gedit) to install. (Though there 
wouldn't necessarily be an obvious and natural way to select home 
directory vs. global installation.)

 -Tom