Unable to extract/compile incompatible plugins since they aren't loaded
Ifera opened this issue · comments
Description
DevTools will only extract plugins that are loaded on the server. It fails to extract and/or compile plugins that aren't loaded on the server.
It is undesirable since many a times developers want to unphar old/broken plugins which wouldn't load due to incompatible api and thus will not be unphar-ed by DevTools since they aren't loaded on the server.
If you want to decompile plugins that can't be loaded, simply use the command line interface. DevTools isn't really intended for this.
and you wonder why people prefer pmt.mcpe.fun ?
Let's make a plugin that adds a command /phar and pipes all the arguments to phar.phar. Happy?
I feel that we are going through a slippery slope there.
That's a ridiculous argument. This issue is talking about extending the functionality, which is currently extremely limited, in a way which is perfectly reasonable given what devtools can already do.
In retrospect, my argument in favour of implementing this feature essentially boiled down to "we already have one anti-feature, why not add another?". /makeplugin was already an anti-feature - having to start a server just to build a plugin never made any sense. No more so does it make sense to have to start a server to extract a plugin.