Request: Zipped release for manual install

[1ku1]

In order to install the plugin manually, you have to download the three files individually, then create a folder and rename it with the plugin id and put these files in it.

I know these files are needed for automatic installation to work, but it would be much easier for the user to be able to download a zipped file also from the releases tab in the following configuration:

plugin-id-{v}.zip
    plugin-id\
        main.js
        manifest.json
        styles.css

This way we can just extract the zip file in the plugin folder. Thank you.

[gfxholo]

Hi @1ku1! I totally see the benefit of this, but it's a pretty small edge case to support when we already have the official community browser, and alternative updaters like BRAT and VARE as well. I'm guessing the average user won't be trying a manual installation unless they already know exactly what they're doing.

Are you doing something unique with the releases, like re-hosting them on a blog for example?

[1ku1]

Are you doing something unique with the releases, like re-hosting them on a blog for example?

No, nothing like that. We just have a firewall policy.

[gfxholo]

Okay! Checking out your recent pull requests, I found four good examples of this being done with no problems on the Obsidian end:

• Settings Search
• Better Command Palette
• Settings Profiles
• Linter

I should be able to wire this into the next release :)

[1ku1]

Thank you!