How to make sure that plugins are up to date ?

[Nicolas Syssoieff]

Hello guys,

After some months of only using my MPTW for what it is (instead of spending numerous hours tweaking it more than actually using it :o), I have today a question regarding updates.

I have upgraded quite easily to TW 2.4.x from my previous 2.3.x version by importing most of the tiddlers and tweaking things here and there, but can I easily check that my plugins are up to date ? Of course, this does not include the MPTW plugins as I downloaded the most recent fresh MPTW to perform my upgrade, but the plugins I took from others like tiddlytools.com, lewcid.org, and so on...

Is there a clean way (even if it is via a plugin to check them all) to quickly make a "diff" between the actual plugins versions and my plugins ?

Thanks
Nicolas.

[Eric Shulman]

> importing most of the tiddlers and tweaking things here and there, but can I
> easily check that my plugins are up to date ? Of course, this does not
> include the MPTW plugins as I downloaded the most recent fresh MPTW to
> perform my upgrade, but the plugins I took from others like tiddlytools.com,
> lewcid.org, and so on...
>
> Is there a clean way (even if it is via a plugin to check them all) to
> quickly make a "diff" between the actual plugins versions and my plugins ?

http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LoadTiddlersPlugin

usage:

<<loadTiddlers "label:get updates from TiddlyTools"
"changes" "http://www.TiddlyTools.com" "quiet">>

enjoy,
-e

[FND]

> can I easily check that my plugins are up to date

If you have installed the plugins by importing them from their original
location, you can use sync (accessible from the backstage).
However, that won't work if you have modified the plugin tiddlers (e.g.
by changing the tags).

-- F.

[Simon Baird]

MPTW  has an overall version number. You can find it by doing <<mptwVersion>>. The latest is visible near the SiteSubtitle at http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/
So that helps a little bit. If you're behind then you at least know something has changed.

--
simon...@gmail.com

[Nicolas Syssoieff]

Ah ah, this is awesome :D
I was sure that something existed, but I never would have thought of "LoadTiddlers" in the first place...
I'll just create a line for each "main" extension source, and that will be it.

Thanks a lot, Eric :)

Nicolas.

[Nicolas Syssoieff]

Hi all,

Sorry to raise the topic again, but there is a little thing I still want to improve in the plugins update process.
I have implemented the
<<loadTiddlers "label:get updates from some_site" "changes" "some_site" "quiet">> command, as Eric suggested, and it indeed works, but there is one small inconvenient : all plugins that are updated get tagged with their original source tags (and mine if I add some at the end of the loadTiddlers call), and this jeopardizes the neat tagging structure I have in my destination TW because new tags are added only for one or two of these plugins.

Is there a way I can call the loadTiddlers command with an additional "no-source-tags" parameter of some kind, so that only the tags I choose at the end of the loadTiddlers get applied ?

Thanks,
Nicolas

[Nicolas Syssoieff]

Bump !