Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr> wrote:
> Le mardi 21 juin 2011 à 17:11 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit :
>> I'm not going to do an upgrade automatically. Instead, the user will
>> get a simple notification telling him that extensions can be upgraded.
>> Clicking on it will open the extensions.gnome.org website, where he
>> can upgrade at his leisure. The 'shell-version' fieldcannot lie: the
>> field is present for the user's benefit. If the automatic upgrading
>> system sees that the newer versions are incompatible with the Shell,
>> it won't pop up the notification or allow the user to upgrade.
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> Have you considered if/how upgrading extensions could be integrated in
> a common upgrade tool? If the Shell, Epiphany, GEdit and other GNOME
> apps start using extensions, it would really be nice to upgrade them all
> from the same place. Else, you'll get an upgrade notification from the
> Shell when logging in, one when starting two days later GEdit, etc. That
> really doesn't fit in the idea of a desktop that helps you focusing on
> what you want to do. With a central place, we could check every two
> weeks for upgrades, and run them all at the same time.

libpeas plugins? No, I haven't. John Stowers let me know that Garrett
Reiger is working on a libpeas plugin store, so I assume that
contacting him to see if we can work together would be the best plan
of action right now.

> Probably the PackageKit upgrade tool isn't the best candidate (at least
> as-is), because it works on system packages, and rarely bring
> interesting new things to users, contrary to extensions that people
> chose to install. But either a per-user upgrade tool could run, or the
> PackageKit one could gain support for per-user extensions. What do you
> think?
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> Cheers
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