[Bf-python] Let Addons finf out if new release available...

[Jonathan Giroux]

Hi,

I published last year an addon that can do that:
https://github.com/Bloutiouf/blender-addon-registry . I sent an email to
this mailing list to announce it. It went totally unnoticed. That shows the
lack of interest BF and the addon community has in a modern addon
management. So let's happily continue to edit a poor wiki page and show the
world that blender, which claims its extensibility through addons, cannot
support them professionally.

I understand Christopher's doubts regarding privacy, which is important for
the open source community. To which I answer 1. It's unthinkable without
letting the option to enable/disable this feature, which is very quick to
add. 2. Getting addons into mainline is not a scalable solution. On the
contrary, I dislike that blender comes with bundled addons that I will
never use. The scalable solution is to easily allow addons to be downloaded
and updated, which is the goal of my addon.

Gaia, you could add your plugins in my  repository. It could need a little
dedusting, as I haven't updated it since, I'll look at that soon.

Jo
On Feb 22, 2016 1:19 PM, "Christopher Barry" <christopher.r.barry at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:51:13 +0100
> Gaia Clary <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
>
> >However many of our customers have asked us if we can let
> >our Addon tell them instead about availability of a new release.
>
>
> Personally, I think there's enough stuff happening in the World behind
> our backs. Allowing a random addon access to the Internet without
> intervention just sounds like a Very Bad Idea(tm) to me...
>
> How about just getting your Addon(s) into mainline?
>
> My 2cents,
>
> --
> Regards,
> Christopher
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