Hi Guys,

 

with all these awesome plugins running around, it is becoming increasingly difficult to see which plugins are running and which aren't with out going through each one individually, Maybe someone can create a plugin that allows you to see which are online and which aren't,

 

Maybe change the background of the plugin icon under setting to green and red based on whether they are on or off, or maybe another plugin 0_0 which reads all the CFG files to report on a page which are on or off ?.

 

This should actually be built into to the unRAID's plugin core ?

 

Hi Guys,

 

with all these awesome plugins running around, it is becoming increasingly difficult to see which plugins are running and which aren't with out going through each one individually, Maybe someone can create a plugin that allows you to see which are online and which aren't,

 

Maybe change the background of the plugin icon under setting to green and red based on whether they are on or off, or maybe another plugin 0_0 which reads all the CFG files to report on a page which are on or off ?.

 

This should actually be built into to the unRAID's plugin core ?

There should be a plugin-manager, which allows you to install, configure, enable, disable any plugin. 

Nobody has written one yet, therefore, there is a LOT of fragmentation on how things work.  (although, to be truthful, since there are only a handful of plugin authors, and they've built on each others work, the fragmentation is not as bad as it could be)

 

Joe L.

There should be a plugin-manager, which allows you to install, configure, enable, disable any plugin. 

Nobody has written one yet, therefore, there is a LOT of fragmentation on how things work.  (although, to be truthful, since there are only a handful of plugin authors, and they've built on each others work, the fragmentation is not as bad as it could be)

 

Joe L.

 

I've posted a thread discussing this fragmentation, and some proposed guidelines to help unify the plug-ins in their architecture and nomenclature. There hasn't been much interest on the thread, not sure if other authors are either not interested or just otherwise tied up.

 

See the thread here

 

I've also written the basics for a plug-in manager/repository. I do not have web space to host this myself though. I got lazy and haven't gotten around to finishing this though. The server code is done, just need to make the gui frontend. Hopefully I'll have something on this soon. Work schedules have been shifting around lately so I either find myself without time or just too tired by time I get home to do it.

what kind of web space are you looking for?

 

Myk

 

All depending on if I can get this code right(I am a novice), it wouldn't be much, just to hold the plug-ins and execute small php files. The php script I've written is only 31 lines, it simply parses the plug-ins in the directory and returns a xml file listing the plug-ins and download URL's.

 

Each plug-in I've looked at is under 1 MB in size so it wouldn't require much space at all. And traffic would be minimal, a incoming request for the page and a return that would be maybe ~10kb for the xml, and I'm sure that would be on the heavy side, then maybe 20-30kb transfer for each plg downloaded.

 

Again, all this is based on if I can get everything working. The server side works fine, just figuring out the best way to parse that information into a page for the user.

 

I'm looking at populating arrays, one for a dropdown menu to select plug-ins to install, and another to simply list installed plug-ins. Once thats working, I'll look into adding description fields and features like uninstall.

 

Of course, I'm always welcome to help from some of the more experienced coders around here,

Limetech is actively building a plugin repository, this will eventually happen. Best not to invest too much time into anything until we heard the official work from Tom 

Its good to hear he is actively developing one. I'll continue to toy with mine, if for no other reason I'll archive it and save it for a rainy day when another use presents itself.