Re: Suggestion for discussion: cleaning up the plugins page

[ Response to Eion is below the response to Shlomi ] On 05-09-2016 03:31, Shlomi Fish wrote: There are multiple ways that the plugins page can be improved: Can you provide a link to it?

Re: Suggestion for discussion: cleaning up the plugins page

There's been a few attempts at a Pidgin Plugins Website over the years. Most of them turned out as flops. As a plugin developer, I feel that having somewhere like http://adiumxtras.com/ or https://addons.instantbird.org/ to be able to upload plugins to would be great, but as a Pidgin dev, I'd be

Re: Suggestion for discussion: cleaning up the plugins page

Hi Alex, first of all, I should note that you should not start a new thread by replying to an existing message. Please see this: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/start-new-thread.html On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 23:18:59 -0400 Alex Oren wrote: > There

Pidgin suggestion for discussion: cleaning up the plugins page

Though I am no dev, just an active Pidgin+plugin user, IMO every bullet in Alex' list below scores a point. Point 3 cannot go without point 4. Together they should show under one bullet. *-cedric* cedric dot bhihe at gmail dot com - /GMT+1/

Suggestion for discussion: cleaning up the plugins page

There are multiple ways that the plugins page can be improved: 1. Removing the links that are no longer resolving. 2. Indicating outdated plugins that no longer work. 3. Indicating whether binary releases are available, or better yet, providing binaries for all plugins that do not have them