But the owner of the Plugin Manager was not Don. Don didn’t feel the need for developing a builtin plugin-administration tool, because the PM was good enough, and he was willing to distribute that plugin with Notepad++ to make managing plugins easier. But they were always separately maintained and separately owned. The Notepad++ developer (Don) had liked it so much that he distributed the Plugin Manager plugin with Notepad++, because it was such a useful tool for managing plugins.

Someone created a Plugin Manager plugin for Notepad++. As I was heavily involved in this forum as everything was going through the process of changing from Plugin Manager to Plugins Admin, I understood it happened as follows: Either your research was incomplete, or one of us is mistaken. The developer replaced a tool that was externally maintained and externally hosted, and replaced it with similar working functionality built into the Notepad++ application itself.įor no reason other than some people who were complainingĪs far as I understood it, factually incorrect. It really feels like you took a perfect tool and broke itįactually incorrect. You are allowed your opinion – that it was a mistake to remove it – but the new Plugins Admin that is built into Notepad++ works, and has less overhead, and doesn’t hog network bandwidth like the old Plugin Manager did.

The plugin manager worked great, and I think it was a mistake to remove it. Plugin Manager is incompatible with any version of Notepad++ newer than v7.5.9, and has been effectively deprecated because of the builtin solution. By v7.6.3, the builtin Plugins Admin that mentioned was stabilized and provided the functionality that was previously provided by Plugin Manager. The Plugin Manager became incompatible with Notepad++ v7.6.0 due to changes in the plugins folder structure.

Specifically, the old Plugin called Plugin Manager, which was shipped by default with Notepad++ until somewhere in the v7.5.x range.

Said in Removing plugin manager was a mistake:ĭo you mean Plugin Admin? It is still there in Notepad++ ,

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