Sdl universal plugin installer

Romulus Crisan (former member) over 9 years ago

A few weeks back I started working at an universal plugin installer that will simply the publish process for every SDL Studio Developer. The main trigger for this is the close release of SDL Studio 2015 and the need for almost every developer to upgrade their installer since the SDL Studio version is using a new plugin folder. If you want to read more about how to make sure your plugin is ready for SDL Studio 2015 have a look here:

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To find out more about how the universal installer is working please have a look here:

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If you want to try it now you can grab it from here:

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We are looking to distribute this universal installer as part of Sdl Studio 2015 and of course on OpenExchange. I would like to get your feedback on this and of course any suggestion is more than welcomed

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Romulus Crisan | Translation Productivity Development Manager | SDL | (twitter) @cromica_82 | (blog) http://www.romuluscrisan.com/

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Patrick Andrew Hartnett over 9 years ago

Hi Romulus,

This is just a quick note for now to confirm that i will be taking detailed look at this in the these days when I have more time... love the idea of a "universal" installer for simplifying this process...
I'll follow up...
Patrick.
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Offline Anonymous over 9 years ago

Sounds good.
It is for "Install" plug-ins, not for making it. Right ?
OK. I'll try it for sure, after I make a plug-in of mine.
Thanks.
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Romulus Crisan (former member) over 9 years ago in reply to Anonymous

Yes it's for installing the plugins. The advantage you get as a developer is the fact that you don't need to build a dedicated installer which saves some work.

I can also confirm that this will be part of Studio 2015 package, we are also looking to see if it's possible do distribute it together with Studio 2014 but that's still to be decided.

Romulus Crisan | Translation Productivity Development Manager | SDL | (twitter) @cromica_82 | (blog) http://www.romuluscrisan.com/
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Offline Anonymous over 9 years ago in reply to Romulus Crisan (former member)

Ho... getting interested in that thing.
What do you mean by "dedicated installer" ? Don't you mean the Visula Studio do you ?
I've never deployed Plug-ins. So, I am not good at its proper procedures.
Any ways I guess it's a good one.
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Romulus Crisan (former member) over 9 years ago in reply to Anonymous

Every studio plugin is in essence a package (think like a zip), now in order for this to work it needs to be copied in certain locations from where Studio knows how to load it. Since not every user knows how and where to do this usually developers create installers for their plugins to automate the deploy on the user machine. Until now each developer was on his own regarding how the user will deploy his plugin but we want to make things easier so this is an alternative way to deploy the plugin.

If you are interested in more details please read section 2 of this article (although is for Studio 2015 the only difference from Studio 2014 is the actual folder):

Romulus Crisan | Translation Productivity Development Manager | SDL | (twitter) @cromica_82 | (blog) http://www.romuluscrisan.com/
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Offline Anonymous over 9 years ago in reply to Romulus Crisan (former member)

I really like this part " make things easier " in your reply.
Thanks for good explanations.
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