rb files and optional folders being manually copied to the Plugins folder, a single zipped file was downloaded and automatically unzipped into the Plugins folder via Preferences/Extensions (Window/Extension Manager from SU 2017). Instead of one or more arbitrarily named. And many people found it hard to install them.Īround SU8 maintenance release 2 (SU8 M2 for short) a new and (for the user) simpler method of installing them was developed, and the name was changed from Plugin to Extension, although they were and are still installed in a Plugins folder. Plugins were installed by copying or moving them to a Plugins folder, whose location has varied with successive versions of SU.Īs more plugins were written, by different authors, naming conflicts became more common. rb file type, and optional sub folder(s) and file(s). They could (and still may) consist of only one or more Ruby code file(s) with a. Plugins were the original form of adding extra functionality to SU, from early on.
And the SketchUcation plugin, which can manage both, still makes a distinction.
But technically, as I understand it, not quite.
