Fredo's plugins not in Extension Warehouse...?

thomthom

Yea - I implemented that system some months ago because I kept getting users who didn't read the requirement of TT_Lib. With the release of EW and SU2013 I tweaked it so it will launch the EW window with the entry for TT_Lib open. Users of older SketchUp versions will get a direct download to my BitBucket repo hosting.

But I still wish it was all done transparently. That way it would be easier to develop framework and packages which developers can easily implement and deploy.

notareal

@fredo6 said:

thomthom,

I do agree with all you say.

The technical requirements of EWH are constraining. Actually, one problem script writers need to take care of is the retro-compatibility, because not everyone has migrated to SU13 and plugins must be installable in other ways, on SU6, SU7, SU8. In addition, managing the transition, with change of names and compliance to EWH installation model leads to a massive update of documentation, posts.

SU8 free will probably be a commercial use for long time among those who need SU rarely or if SU2013 is simply too expensive. I also do know some that actually do consider if SU2013 is worth to upgrade from SU8. SU8 works ok and it's functionality is rather easy to extend with existing plugins.
Sounds like PITA if SU2013 compatible plugins cannot be installed directly on SU8, is it really so?

thomthom

SU2013 didn't introduce any new API methods AFIK - so I don't see any reason why plugins between SU8 and SU2013 cannot be exchanged.

mac1

FYI : After downloading Su2013 I re-named its plugin folder, created a new plugin folder and copied all may SU8 plugins to SU 2013.The native download of Su2013 does not include ruby script examples, ocean modeling, cost etc and if you do not have those the plugin menu bar will not show( Think ruby script examples is required)unless you have a script loaded that also enables it. I removed those which were brought over from SU8 just encase , re downloaded and then copied the remaining files from the 2013 folder back to plugin. Things work great so far