Idea: Blender Add on manager - "UPDATES" panel and Blender cloud accounts

GottfriedHofmann · October 3, 2015, 8:56am

This is a really nice suggestion, and there is one addon that already has implemented something simliar: LuxBlend!

GottfriedHofmann · October 3, 2015, 9:05am

I just got the confirmation that something along those lines is in the making for the Blender Cloud
More details should be unveiled soon, probably next week.

const · October 6, 2015, 1:47am

That’s good news!

nomelif · October 15, 2015, 12:31pm

Either I am too stupid to find it (which I definitely don’t rule out), or there hasn’t been such an announcement. In the meantime, I found something that could actually work and is allready out there: 0install (www.0install.net). It should be adaptable to our purposes with only little tweaks, is open source (I am not sure if it is directly compatible with GPL, but I think it could have been L-GPL). It could make stuff even easier if software is hosted in a distributed way. What do people think about it?

BaRe · February 22, 2016, 9:19am

I just got the confirmation that something along those lines is in the making for the Blender Cloud
More details should be unveiled soon, probably next week.

Oh that’s good news!

0install is interesting, but as i interpreted is more like a client side feature, not integrated to the system, that we want.

blurymind · March 5, 2016, 9:43am

We are way past next week now and no news from bf…
Today i saw that a gsoc student has expressed interest in picking this up. We will see what BF answers.

I hope they dont limit the feature to blender cloud and have it available only to a walled garden

LazyVirus · March 5, 2016, 12:06pm

Good the idea of the addon update if manual through an update button.
I don’t like the idea of sync blender with the cloud or any other news/ads/cloud/whatever service IF you don’t have an option to disable it.
It’s something I always hate in software.

agoose77 · March 8, 2016, 1:34am

Google blender addon registry (it’s on GitHub)

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blurymind · March 8, 2016, 11:19am

Not an official addon by BF, but it’s a good start!

Any news on this ever being included to trunk?

Meta-Androcto · March 9, 2016, 3:01pm

here’s a working prototype for github addons by matpi:

github.com

qwenger/BAddons/blob/master/matpi_addons_collection.py

# ##### BEGIN GPL LICENSE BLOCK #####
#
#  matpi_addons_collection.py
#  Global configurator and downloader for Matpi's addons collection
#  Copyright (C) 2015 Quentin Wenger
#
#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
#  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
#  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
#  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#  GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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There’s another way of individual addons install/updates also by 1D_inc & nikitron, also saidenka’s scramble addon & chromoly’s ctools.
personally I’m not sure which is best method for external addons, I guess it can depend on the addons author & how many addons they have. As for Blender Cloud, I’m sure Sybren will figure it out. Time will tell.

John_Lancaster · March 9, 2016, 9:23pm

Yes. Now. I demand this.