What you highlight in this excellent thread is that, practically, we really need a central …
Library of Plugin Libraries
Maybe this will be it???
I do think the “Plugin Library” method of installing add-ons makes a lot of sense. It is lightweight, understands “update”, is user friendly, is robust.
Right, that is what I hope for; i.e that you in your own TW (e.g via “Get more plugins”) can access everything instead of having to surf away to some other site. Perhaps similar to an app store.
We may think of this as an almost revolutionizing improvement - but newcomers will say "Um, you mean this was not in place for the last decade?"
Plugins themselves can be composed of tiddlers that are plugin libraries (I think, guess I should try this). So if each plugin library included a plugin that referenced other libraries, a person starting from just one library might eventually discover all the other libraries, including ones that don’t make it to this list.
Arriving late to this conversation, existing as I do in the Australian time zone, with a fresh mind after a good nights sleep, I gave this topic a quick scan.
As a result I created plugins.tiddlyhost.com as “libraries” was not available. This is a hub listed public wiki where I intend to develop some plugin resources including collected plugin library resources. This will be about plugins and libraries rather than the plugins themselves.
I will soon start an appropriate discussion for people to discuss and contribute to plugins.tiddlyhost.com but we can use this one for now as it is On topic, for now.
I have a range of ideas to make this a useful and informative site. Feel free to make suggestions.
