Plover Plugin Manager

⚠️  Important: This standalone Plugin Manager is only required for Plover v4.
Starting with Plover v5 its functionality is built directly into Plover itself, so you do not need to install or update this package when running Plover v5 or later.

Release history

0.7.9

• Remove debugging prints from previous tests

0.7.8

• Added debugging prints

0.7.7

• Burned during testing

0.7.6

• Burned during testing

0.7.5

• add workaround for different requests-cache versions

0.7.4

• fix plugin version parsing since pkginfo now returns packaging.version.Version objects instead of plain strings
• fix CachedSession.remove_expired_responses() error
• change caching from sqlite to memory since that's more robust

0.7.3

• burned this release number with a wrong upload to PyPi

0.7.2

• added button in UI to take Git url for installation

0.7.1

• fix editable installation (ensure UI files are properly generated)

0.7.0

• tweak custom info widget's API for reuse in other plugins

0.6.3

• fix Python packaging

0.6.2

• fix compatibility with requests-cache>=0.8.0

0.6.1

• minor tweaks to make packaging for AUR easier

0.6.0

• warn users about the security risk when installing plugins
• fix plugin install/removal when running in a Python virtual environment

0.5.16

• stop using PyPI's (disabled) XMLRPC search endpoint, and switch to a self-hosted registry of available plugins (maintained at https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover_plugins_registry).

0.5.15

• fix support for cancelling an install/update/removal operation on Windows.

0.5.14

• drop the use of pip's internal APIs
• drop the dependency on PyQt5 WebEngine
• improve and simplify cache handling: persistently cache all network requests (with a 10 minutes expiration date)
• support for Python 3.8

0.5.13

• add support for pip>=18.0
• add support for PyQt5>=5.11
• add support for Markdown plugin descriptions

0.5.12

• improve handling of plugins when user site is disabled: always list the version for the user installed plugin (even if it's older than the system package version and user site packages are disabled)
• disable pip version check
• add support for pip>=10.0

0.5.11

• plugins are now handled even if they can't be loaded by Plover (so it's possible to update/uninstall broken plugins)

0.5.10

• fix #5: open all links externally

0.5.9

• refresh PyPI metadata in the background
• cache PyPI metadata for 10 minutes
• do not crash if connection to PyPI fails

Credits

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