[Eric] plugin repository

[detlev]

On Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010, Flavio Coelho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have experience a bug in Eric4 for a long time, and since no one  seems
>  to notice or report it, I decided to mention it in the hope that there may
>  be a simple solution to it.
> 
> When you select the plugins menu and click on plugin repository, Eric showd
> the plgin dialog, When I click the update button, it can't connect to the
> plugin repository (currently "
> die-offenbachs.homelinux.org/eric/plugins/repository.xml") and then
> sometimes eric crashes a while later.

That should not happen. Do you get any error message?

> 
> I must say that I have NEVER, EVER, managed to connect to this repository.
> May it should be moved to some other, more reliable, server. Eric also
> always complains it can't download the versions file...whatever that is.
> Anyone has a similar experience?

Are you sitting behind a proxy? If so, please ensure, that the proxy settings 
are correct. It works for me without a problem.

> 
> thanks in advance,
> 

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de