2013/8/15 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > >> On 15.08.2013 12:00, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> >>> I noticed a changed workflow compared to former days and I am redirected >>> now to the webpage where I can download the extension. >>> >> The update of an extension should work like the update of the extension >> "Watching Window" from 0.4.4 to 0.5.0. ... >> For the English dictionary I need to download manually the new >> extension. Then I need to install it manually. >> > > The exception here is "Watching Window", that uses custom updates. The > English dictionary behaves like virtually all other extensions. I give some > more details for those who are unfamiliar with the extensions packaging. > > Whoever packaged the English dictionary back in 2010 made the (right) > choice to leave to the Extensions site the responsibility to manage > updates. "Watching Window", instead, specifies its own update feed, that > lives on Github; but this is a more fragile setup; for example, I've seen > countless mentions of this problem (for the OxygenOffice gallery extension, > that specified its own update feed but then moved it...) over the years: > http://forum.openoffice.org/**en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=**31360<http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31360> > > If you specify (and host) your own update feed, you can choose the update > policy (direct or indirect download); if you don't, the Extensions site > manages everything for you and you, as the extension maintainer, can't > choose between direct and indirect download. > > So what is under discussion here is not whether the 2010 maintainer of the > English dictionary made the right choice in relying on the generic update > feed (he did; otherwise I wouldn't have been able to republish his > extension and push updates), but is that the generic update feed on the > Extensions site is configured to serve updates as indirect downloads and > not as direct downloads. >
The indirect download approach could be used to communicate with end-users through the landing pages. May be this is something we might want to explore to outreach our user base. Roberto > > Regards, > Andrea. > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
