Re: [Gramps-devel] Third-party plugins, aka Addons

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Brian Matherly
<br...@gr...>wrote:

> Doug,
>
> > Devs,
> > If you are working on an addon for gramps 3.2,
> > the new Plugin Manager is nearing completion. If your addon
> > is packaged correctly then you can install it from the
> > Plugin Manager (Menu -> Help -> Plugin Manager).
> >
> > The only thing new (in the last few weeks) is
> > that you need to have two plugin settings:
> > "for_gramps" and "version". Both of
> > these are string version numbers, like this in the .gpr.py
> > file:
> >
> > register(GRAMPLET,    for_gramps =
> > "3.2",    version =
> > "1.0.1",
> >  ...)
> > You can see more information here:
> >
> >
> http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Addons_Development#Create_a_Gramps_Plugin_Registration_file
> >
> > Once you have it packaged, please add it
> > to:
> > http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Plugins3.2
> >
> > I haven't tested the download and install
> > under Windows or Mac yet, but if someone does, please report
> > back the status.
> > Thanks!
>
> It looks like you've made good progress. I only have one nit: the name
> "for_gramps" is not very descriptive. Without reading your documentation, I
> would be inclined to set it equal to "True". Consider changing that to
> something descriptive like "gramps_target_version" or "gramps_api_version".
>
>
Yes, I don't like the name "for_gramps" either... any other ideas? This is a
setting that says that this plugin was designed for a particular version of
gramps. Thus, "setting = '3.2'" means the plugin should go with gramps 3.2.
I was trying to keep the name short, but I agree that descriptive is better.

-Doug


> ~Brian
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