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krusynth / rpgmakermv-plugins

RPG Maker MV Plugins

https://games.krues8dr.com/

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Easier plugin management #1

Open krusynth opened 5 years ago

krusynth commented 5 years ago

The RPG Maker MV ecosystem lacks a coherent plugin repository system. Since this is a javascript application, npm is the logical choice for management. As I did with Minecraft, it would be useful to create a management system for plugins. Some considerations:

RPG Maker's plugins do not follow the standard NPM module format.
Authors generally do not post their plugins to a central repository that's indexed.
We probably don't want to rehost those due to licensing concerns.
We will likely want to generate a "credits" file of some sort

Some potential solutions:

Host an index of plugins - easily done on GitHub pages, but keeping this up and versioning becomes difficult quickly.
Create a plugin to NPM itself to handle a unique repo & structure.

krusynth commented 5 years ago

napa looks like a potential solution. We'll still need a wrapper to handle the various authors' files.