From bbddf7e2dbc855e1abc05c748c7c16ccf7a00ca5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:12:12 +0200 Subject: Plugin packages now expand into a dir with only the name and version number --- PLUGINS.html | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'PLUGINS.html') diff --git a/PLUGINS.html b/PLUGINS.html index 3ecad7e5..de1a2ae9 100644 --- a/PLUGINS.html +++ b/PLUGINS.html @@ -117,21 +117,25 @@ from the web, it will typically have a name like

and will unpack into a directory named

-vdr-hello-0.0.1 +
  +hello-0.0.1 +

To use the plugins and plugins-clean targets from the VDR Makefile you need to unpack such an archive into the VDR/PLUGINS/src directory and create a symbolic link with the basic plugin name, as in +
 


-ln -s vdr-hello-0.0.1 hello +ln -s hello-0.0.1 hello

Since the VDR Makefile only searches for directories with names consisting of only lowercase characters and digits, it will only follow the symbolic links, which should lead to the current version of the plugin you want to use. This way you can -have several different versions of a plugin source (like vdr-hello-0.0.1 and -vdr-hello-0.0.2) and define which one to actually use through the symbolic link. +have several different versions of a plugin source (like hello-0.0.1 and +hello-0.0.2) and define which one to actually use through the symbolic link. +


Initializing a new plugin directory

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