Re: an interface to encourage self-documentation of plug-ins

Posted by Prodanov Dimiter on Apr 27, 2009; 1:23pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/an-interface-to-encourage-self-documentation-of-plug-ins-tp3692779p3692780.html

* Paul Johnston proposed a centrally hosted plugin registry and a

package-manager, with submission template requiring documentation

Advantages:

- solves other short-comings of current plug-in-anarchy in the same move

Disadvantages:

- as Johannes Schindelin underlined (I concur), if there is to much of

a burden to share a plug-in, developers won't bother sharing.

- a lot of work to create the infrastructure (but cf Fiji)

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I strongly advocate for such an approach. The infrastructire is already here.
I have developed a web-service enabling framework for ImageJ.
I tried is with Fiji and it works out of the box.
You can see my presentation/paper at the last IJ Conference.

Cheers

Dimiter