[ExI] Got blog!

[Bryan Bishop]

On Monday 25 August 2008, Emlyn wrote:
> I'm currently working on two things that are exciting me:
>
> 1 - Wandering Developer Edit, a general purpose desktop editor which
> will be able to download editors as plugins in a user friendly way.
> It's supposed to be a techy person's swiss army knife - you could
> have hex editors, database query tools, ldap query tools, tools for
> encryption/decryption and digital signatures, etc etc etc. I'm
> building it because I continually have the need for this kind of
> thing, with a simple plugable framework. Also the plugins must be
> able to have their own plugins, as deeply nested as is desired, all
> managed through the same framework.

How is this different from something like Eclipse?
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/

> 2 - Pak System, an general, free automatic update system, with
> multiple client and server sides. Crucially, it'll have a lot of
> intelligence about plugin dependencies and related issues, and manage
> the interactions between versions and dependency trees. It's a hard
> problem that I'm trying to keep simple as possible :-)

How is this not like APT, yum, portage, etc.? Just wondering if you're 
doing something the wheel hasn't yet.

- Bryan
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