joshburnsxyz

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by joshburnsxyz 5y ago
I do plan on implementing Updating/versioning of the plugins. As mentioned previous - This is still a massive WIP and I am still working on fleshing the basics out.
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by joshburnsxyz 5y ago
I 100% agree with you, but as i've stated a couple times here now. Once i've got the base of the system solid and working I will then implement proper security measures on-top of that. If you want to jump on-board and help out tha
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by joshburnsxyz 5y ago
At the moment i've chosen to go with the hard coded JSON approach purely to get things off the ground, and keep control over what the program is actually doing, accepting generic URLs will require security which is out of scope at the
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by joshburnsxyz 5y ago
At the moment, the only packages being distributed are hand-coded into the repository feed. If/when it comes to blindly distributing users code, security measures would be implemented.
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by joshburnsxyz 5y ago
Correct, as this is the software equivalent of a rough first draft, This is the kind of feedback im looking for. The choice to enforce a format for plugins was done purely to streamline the fetching of metadata (names, authors, links, etc.)
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by joshburnsxyz 5y ago
So at the moment I maintain a registry in the form of a JSON file on github (joshburnsxyz/git-plugins-repo) the CLI command parses the raw JSON from that file and then the plugins have a Makefile with the build/install instruction
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