[Bf-committers] Bf-committers Digest, Vol 953, Issue 1

[Ryan Inch]

Yes, I realize a nice UI could be put together in Blender for installing 
add-ons from an online repository, but my point was that the bundled 
add-ons come with Blender and don't need to be installed at all.

On 2021-06-20 06:00 AM, bf-committers-request at blender.org wrote:
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 12:44:04 +0200
> From: Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlommel at gmail.com>
> To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at blender.org>
> Cc: Ryan Inch <mythologylover75 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Bf-committers Digest, Vol 953, Issue 1
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> On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 8:13 AM Ryan Inch via Bf-committers <
> bf-committers at blender.org> wrote:
>
>> If the bundled add-ons were moved out of Blender and into an online
>> repository each user would have to explicitly search for and download
>> them instead of having them ready to be used out of the box.
>>
> You can imagine the exact same UI as in the preferences now, but instead it
> gets the add-ons from an online repository.
>
> In practice some things in the UI would change, but installing add-ons does
> not have to take more steps.