Great. Then XML it is.

LouisGac wrote: we already deal with this problem since 2.50

What does deal with mean? Accept the security risk or mitigate it? Wonder what attack vector you all have in mind here.

The amount of metadata needed for the addons seems to be not that big as that JSON can muscle out XML (Remote control api was conquered by JSON .

json is made for communication between programs. You query an api, you have the result as JSON. If you need a subset of the data of this JSON: you query again the API with better parameters, and you get a new JSON object.

XML is made for human, it's human readable (ex: easy to comment).
More important: it's a querying language in itself.
So you can easily "query" your document, to get the data that interest you inside that document. You have the document with all the data that interest you, and you "query the document" to have the subset of data you want. So, it's not at all the same logic than JSON. In a way, we could say: "XML is an API".

Some progress pics.

LouisGac wrote: we could say: "XML is an API".

During the XML hype we used to say: XML has schema. That was around 2000, where XMLSpy was one of the few editors to cope with XML. Old times.

@olle:
Nice, but is "Purchase" the right word if there are free (GPL etc) plugins too?
What's about "Get" or "Find"?

olle wrote: Some progress pics.

Oups, i think it was included in Plugin Management to add 'update' link for example.

DenisChenu wrote:

olle wrote: Some progress pics.

Oups, i think it was included in Plugin Management to add 'update' link for example.

We'll get there.

orvil wrote: @olle:
Nice, but is "Purchase" the right word if there are free (GPL etc) plugins too?
What's about "Get" or "Find"?

Good suggestion, will fix.

orvil wrote: @olle:
Nice, but is "Purchase" the right word if there are free (GPL etc) plugins too?
What's about "Get" or "Find"?

I agree with that statement.

Some more pics.

Files are no longer scanned automatically. You have to manually click "Scan files" to check for available plugins. This will not be the preferred installations method. Instead, you should either upload a ZIP package or browse available plugins etc in the store view.

Go Olle, go!