Etherpad-lite: Is the plugin list stucked?

[ldidry]

Hello,

The plugin list seems stucked: ep_mypads 1.2.0 has been released a couple of weeks ago and https://static.etherpad.org/plugins.json still shows ep_mypads at 1.0.5 version.

Can somebody look after the script/cron task/whatever that updates the list please?

[ldidry]

Ping !

[JohnMcLear]

@Gared

[JohnMcLear]

Looks tha tway

/usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory
/home/xxxx/ep-plugins/node_modules/npm/lib/cache/update-index.js:61
            var t = +data._updated || 0
                         ^

TypeError: Cannot read property '_updated' of undefined
    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15)

[JohnMcLear]

Looks like npm broke search results.

[JohnMcLear]

partly fixed with npm config set searchlimit 5000

@Gared it appears npm made a breaking change ;\ npm.commands.search no longer behaves as per documentation.

[ldidry]

Where is the code of the script please? I could have a look.

[JohnMcLear]

The crux of it is

npm.load({}, function (er) {
  if (er) console.error(er);
  npm.commands.search(['ep_'], true, function(er, results) {
    console.log(results);
  })
})

[muxator]

Still relevant, isn't it?

[JohnMcLear]

Well npm is fundamentally broken so yea ;\ They changed the search API essentially breaking the way we implement plugins.. I could report to Matt or Isaac but pretty sure our bastardized approach to work around the early API will be disregarded as a suboptimal approach so I doubt a fix will come upstream..

No fix in sight imho.

[ezzra]

Does this only affect the overview or does it mean, that all installed plugins are always out of date? Does it help, not to install via web frontend but via npm install?

[lpagliari]

@ezzra I'm not sure this is what you've asked, but the plugins you have on your Etherpad instance need to be updated, they are not automatically upgraded.

[ezzra]

@lpagliari no I was asking, if just the plugin overview list shows the wrong versions, or if plugins are actually out of date already at the moment of installation. I just sorted the webfrontend pluginlist by last_update, and the most current plugin is ep_padwiki from 2017-05-04 !

As I now have found out, there is a more recent version of padwiki. So, I would like to try what happens when I click install, if it will try to install te most recent version or the one from 2017. Unfortunately it doesn't work at all because of an error, so I would need to check that out first before testing what version is installed.

[Gared]

I rewrote the script to update the script for collecting all ep-plugins and their versions. Please have a look, try it out and report any missing or wrong plugins

[ezzra]

@Gared mh, now the last-updated row is empty in my etherpad instance :)

but the version numbers look better now!

[Gared]

@ezzra Thx, I've fixed it. Maybe it takes some time until the new version has been downloaded from you're instance

[muxator]

@gared, can we close this?

[Gared]

@muxator Yes, I think we can close this issue