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bruderstein / nppPluginManager

Notepad++ Plugin Manager
http://www.brotherstone.co.uk/npp/pm/
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What is the difference between vanilla and '_PA' versions? #136

Closed ColeWunderlich closed 5 years ago

ColeWunderlich commented 5 years ago

In the latest release I see two types of files listed for every type, a normal and one ending in '_PA'. What is the difference between the two?

chcg commented 5 years ago

@ColeWunderlich The _PA zips are for https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/plugin-admin.html introduced with https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.6-released.html.

It contains just the pluginManager.dll in the root of the zip, so PA is able to install it. The functionality is more or less limited to show the plugin list.

ColeWunderlich commented 5 years ago

I am a little confused, what is the difference between the Plugin Admin and the nppPluginManager then?

chcg commented 5 years ago

From a user perspective they are doing more or less the same job. PluginAdmin is directly part of N++ and PluginManager is a plugin. As background you may read https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/issues/80 and https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14315/notepad-7-5-release/33