erwanm
commented
9 years ago It would be technically easy to put the plugin on the TWCS wiki, but there are two big issues:
- the wiki is already big and a bit slow, and plugins can be very large in size.
- I would need the authors consent to do that, and I think that it's better to have the largest possible list of plugins rather than only a partial list with the real plugins.
- Additionally I think it's nicer to the authors to let them have visitors on their wiki for the plugins they built: users can find more info, discover what they do, ...
One thing I'd like to do, however, is to see how the official plugin library system that Jeremy did works: maybe there would a way to generate one?? But I'm also a bit reluctant to make it too easy to install plugins from unknown sources, and my understanding is that Jeremy also wants to protect unexperienced TW users from installing potentially harmful code.
... so for now at least it will stay in the form of a link to the original wiki!
twMat
From a user point, being able to import the plugin directly is of course better than merely getting a link.
I don't know if "serving actual plugins" would necessarily mean that they're included in the TW-aggregator wiki itself. Maybe it does? Or can it... somehow... be a draggable link presented so that when thsi is dragged, it drags the tiddler from the remote source?