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issueid=5469 01-05-2015 02:29 PM
Human being with feelings
Integrate access to online user script database, automate user scripts management
With several available scripting languages and major pieces of functionality relying on user scripts, it is just about time to make them accessible, searchable and manageable to users - from inside Reaper.

Situation: User scripts and themes are currently hardly centralized and in order to even hear about their existence, user needs to do quite some forum browsing, then to try something out, they have to manually download and install the script/theme, then remember where they got it from and every now and then check for updates (or suffer compatibility issues with newer Reaper versions). Obviously uninstallation means finding the folder and manually deleting some files.

Problem: All of that makes it cumbersome, time-consuming, and ultimately discouraging for users to try scripts. In effect, community exposed to user-generated extensions is rather limited, and consequently less developers create/maintain scripts and themes than might have been otherwise.

Suggested solution: Streamlined ways have been invented to manage software extensions (think Firefox, Chrome, or even Ubuntu and Apple Store). I suggest Reaper make the step required to centralize scripts and themes and bring them closer to final users. That would include any (or better every) of the following:
- convenient database access and search
- automated downloading, installation, uninstallation
- automated updates, incl. notifications
- automated compatibility checks against Reaper versions
- easy access to the rating and comment system, so users start to actually report what works and what doesn't and others don't have to test everything on their own skin

Cheers!

Discussion thread is here:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=153115
Issue Details
Issue Type Feature Request
Project Deprecated REAPER issue tracker
Category Arcana
Status Suggested
Priority 5 - Medium
Suggested Version 4.76
Implemented Version (none)
Users who would use this feature 19
Users who would not use this feature 1
Assigned Users (none)
Tags (none)

01-05-2015 03:25 PM
Human being with feelings
 
I agree ! :)
The first thing would be to make automatic updates for REAPER :P currently, REAPER is capable to tell us when there is a new version to download, but it is not automatic.
A lot of people never updates their REAPER because they don't want to take the time to do such things --' and I know some of them personally :P

Auto updates scripts, extensions, plugins and addons from database would make the life so much easier !
We could imagine some advanced platform such as WordPress.org, with notation system, version, categories, authors etc...

This would be a HUGE thing, and it is nice to open the discussion about this ! Sure it can't be top priority cause there is some other things to manage, but it is nice to keep that in mind.
You should open a thread on the Feature Request forum to allow more people join the debate !
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