My suggestion (which Michael has said before that he does not like but
it works great for me) ...

Make a real plugin package and a repo file ... and host the repo file on
a web server somewhere.
Configure your LMS to use that (private) repo file and let it install
into Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/<pluginname>

Then when you want to try out some changes ... simply use WinSCP to copy
over the changed files into that folder (overwriting what LMS put there)
and restart LMS (no need to update the install.xml at this point).

If you uninstall the plugin then LMS will remove all of the files ... so
always make the changes that you think you want to keep on your desktop
system.

To do it 100% properly you could package up each speculative change and
update install.xml, make a new zip file and update the repo file (new
checksum and version) but that is a lot of extra work to do while you
are trying out small changes.

There is scope for confusion ... particularly after you have made an
official release where you try something out and then forget to push an
official update to the zip/repo ... but since you have not released
anything to the outside world yet then this does not really matter.



Paul Webster
http://dabdig.blogspot.com
author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc),
planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, supla
finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland
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