Plugin update notifications for plugins outside of a plugin library

[dieg...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

One of my favorite recent features is how plugins part of a library tell you when they need updating.

Am I missing something, or do plugins/themes that are not part of libraries missing this feature? 

[Jeremy Ruston]

One of my favorite recent features is how plugins part of a library tell you when they need updating.

Am I missing something, or do plugins/themes that are not part of libraries missing this feature? 

That’s correct, the ability to automatically update plugins is a property of plugin libraries rather than of the individual plugins.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[dieg...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the reply Jeremy!

I wonder, is it possible to add notifications to "normal" plugins, by treating non-library plugins as their own local/custom library?

[Jeremy Ruston]

I wonder, is it possible to add notifications to "normal" plugins, by treating non-library plugins as their own local/custom library?

One could imagine having an URL associated with individual plugins that TiddlyWiki could check for updates but the challenge is that would require the plugin to be hosted with CORS enabled. CORS is not typically enabled for web hosting (eg GitHub Pages doesn't allow it), which is why we have the plugin mechanism; it uses some iframe/postmessage tricks to pull plugins from the library without CORS.

So, to be able to update individual plugins would require that the plugin author hosted the plugin in a plugin library, and not just on a bare URL.

Best wishes

Jeremy

On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 12:41:00 PM UTC-5 jeremy...@gmail.com wrote:

One of my favorite recent features is how plugins part of a library tell you when they need updating.

Am I missing something, or do plugins/themes that are not part of libraries missing this feature? 

That’s correct, the ability to automatically update plugins is a property of plugin libraries rather than of the individual plugins.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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