[squeak-dev] Build, send and comment on Plugins page

Hi Michael,

since I cross posted to squeak-dev, vm-dev and pharo-dev (yes I know
its bad) here some comments from Andreas and Bert from squeak-dev:

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2009-April/date.html

maybe you could add Rome, DBus, GStreamer


There is also DShowVideoDecoderPlugin for Webcams on Windows.
DLL and link at:
http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/DShowVideo/index.html

And I remember a Win32FileDialogPlugin (the SAR includes the DLL):
http://kminami.fc2web.com/Squeak/Goodies/Win32FileDialogPlugin/index.html

Thanks
Torsten
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Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> since I cross posted to squeak-dev, vm-dev and pharo-dev (yes I know
> its bad) here some comments from Andreas and Bert from squeak-dev:
>
>  
I dont think it is bad at all.

Keith
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2009-April/date.html
>
>  

Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> since I cross posted to squeak-dev, vm-dev and pharo-dev (yes I know
> its bad)

Out of curiosity, why exactly is this bad? Isn't the open exchange of
ideas a good thing?

Looking at the web page I think the distinction between "internal" and
"external" plugins is superficial for most users. I'd rather distinguish
between plugins that are "bundled" (come prebuilt with a VM download)
and those that are not. Consequently I think I would change the format
to be along the lines of, e.g.,

Plugin          MacOS     Windows    Linux      Source
B2DPlugin      (bundled) (bundled)  (bundled)  VMMaker
DShowVDPlugin   -        download    -         ...

In other words, for the ones that aren't bundled we provide a link to a
download location if there is one. Also, I think for some plugins
(FT2Plugin for example) it would be worthwhile to let people know since
when they have been bundled with the VMs otherwise they might expect
that their 3.10.x VM includes it where really the support only started
with 3.11.1.

Cheers,
   - Andreas