Question about development, plugins etc
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Ilija Studen
on Oct 8. 2006. 6:29 pm
businessman:will they all be downloadable from your site, other third parties or users.
We'll provide plugin and translation repository on www.activecollab.com, but we can not force anyone to use it.
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businessman
on Oct 8. 2006. 6:56 pm
What do you mean though that's the part I am trying to understand. You say plugin and translation repository, I am not interested in the other languages really, I mean when you have a plugin setup, oh so you will have everything that can be downloaded for the plugins on the website, so you will end up also building all the stuff for the plugins seperately, is that what you mean.
Last question to is activecollab always going to be free?
Last question to is activecollab always going to be free?
A plugin is a piece of code that cannot normally exist on its own. It is designed to integrate seamlessly into an application and provide some added piece of functionality.
Plugins allow software to be extended without becoming bloated.
Firefox has a plugin repository here: https://addons.mozilla.org/
A potential AC plugin may be an image gallery which would extend the file storage function but show thumbnails of images it contains.
A normal user need not worry about the internal working of a plugin as they are typically very easy to install.
Plugins allow software to be extended without becoming bloated.
Firefox has a plugin repository here: https://addons.mozilla.org/
A potential AC plugin may be an image gallery which would extend the file storage function but show thumbnails of images it contains.
A normal user need not worry about the internal working of a plugin as they are typically very easy to install.
businessman
on Oct 8. 2006. 7:18 pm
I am not a normal user, I am a programmer/coder/web designer(developer), the only thing that is making me wonder, is I have dealt with plugins before and it was like the browser had to have a plugin to like run media player, or flash, or things like that, I will look into this.
The thing that makes me ask, is when I am creating a program, I have it in versions, if I have addon modules, that aren't related to the main program, I was calling them module's, but with an extension. So all the plugins are going to be able to hook up to the modules and the developer of active collab will be building all the things it can hook to as well.
The thing that makes me ask, is when I am creating a program, I have it in versions, if I have addon modules, that aren't related to the main program, I was calling them module's, but with an extension. So all the plugins are going to be able to hook up to the modules and the developer of active collab will be building all the things it can hook to as well.
Pro
Ok, businessman, you are getting caught up into the symantic's of language. I'm also not sure what programmers don't understand what a plugin is, or what an API is.
aC is NOT built for you, it is built for everyone and therefore MUST strive to meet the common demoninator and stay true to the reason it was created. To create and maintain a free open source project management system similar to basecamp.. but free.
Again, the plugin API has yet to be officially released, Ilija might have some things on paper, but as far as I know no one has seen them. As I understand it, he will NOT write all the plugins, his 'job' is to maintain aC, and the API is something that will allow others to contribute, and therefore not overwhelm him if a 'programmer' wants to add something that not everyone has a use for.
Firefox Extensions = Modules = Plugins .. they are all the same things basically, ways to extend the basic/core functionality of aC while keeping aC lean and mean for the average user. Another great example, Drupal, www.drupal.org, some of the leanest core code ever on the web, with an expansive modules/plugins system to ADD functionality to the core. Not everything is included in the core distribution but you can install other things to tweak it to your needs.
aC is NOT built for you, it is built for everyone and therefore MUST strive to meet the common demoninator and stay true to the reason it was created. To create and maintain a free open source project management system similar to basecamp.. but free.
Again, the plugin API has yet to be officially released, Ilija might have some things on paper, but as far as I know no one has seen them. As I understand it, he will NOT write all the plugins, his 'job' is to maintain aC, and the API is something that will allow others to contribute, and therefore not overwhelm him if a 'programmer' wants to add something that not everyone has a use for.
Firefox Extensions = Modules = Plugins .. they are all the same things basically, ways to extend the basic/core functionality of aC while keeping aC lean and mean for the average user. Another great example, Drupal, www.drupal.org, some of the leanest core code ever on the web, with an expansive modules/plugins system to ADD functionality to the core. Not everything is included in the core distribution but you can install other things to tweak it to your needs.
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