I just realized that for user there’s no easy way to download Luup plugins (that are not in the marketplace). Most of plugin pages are missing direct download links. User has to guess that he need to open source, scroll to the end, and there click on download in original format link.
Is it how things are supposed to be, or I’m missing something?
[quote=“325xi, post:1, topic:166091”]I just realized that for user there’s no easy way to download Luup plugins (that are not in the marketplace). Most of plugin pages are missing direct download links. User has to guess that he need to open source, scroll to the end, and there click on download in original format link.
Is it how things are supposed to be, or I’m missing something?[/quote]
no, this is not how we want it to be.
in part it’s because the marketplace downloader is still evolving. when it’s a little more complete (AFAICT, it’s missing only 2 of 6 checkpoints) we’ll attack the accessibility issue.
it’s still undecided if it would be simply to mandate a manifest file, or a ‘package format’, or maybe a ‘beta channel’ on the marketplace, or maybe even a small SVN client written in Lua running on your Vera… (don’t hold your breath for the last one, even if it’s my personal favorite (well, i’d like fossil better than SVN…))
Maybe for meanwhile (while the marketplace downloader is evolving…) we should agree on some way to publish downloadable files from code.mios.com Wiki. It doesn’t make much sense to migrate everything there and still keep actual downloadables on box.net.
The latter BTW has one very neat feature - it send an email every time the file has been downloaded. It provides users with some kind of ‘feedback’ on plugin demand.