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<blockquote data-quote="funkstar" data-source="post: 600813" data-attributes="member: 14311">But once you go down that route, when do you stop?Someone will always want some other plugin or skin to be included, and the download soon hits several hundred MB. Maintenance would become a nightmare too. Every time a new skin or plugin is released a new version would have to be created and uploaded. Same goes for MP versions. Then you would have to make sure the latest versions of skins and plugins don't conflict with each other or are compatible with the included version of MP.The MP Extension Installer is supposed to avoid all this and I'm sure it will in time. <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/blogs/team_blog/mpei_v2_-the_easy_way_to_install_skins_and_plugins.html" target="_blank">MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - 1.2: MPEI V2 Extensions Installer</a>After install you can check to see what other plugins and skins are available for download and this goes off to get them and installs them in the correct locations and sets them up. A far better way of doing things in my opinion. Instead of putting the effort into maintaining a monolithic installer, the same effort should be put into helping with MPEI.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="funkstar, post: 600813, member: 14311"] But once you go down that route, when do you stop? Someone will always want some other plugin or skin to be included, and the download soon hits several hundred MB. Maintenance would become a nightmare too. Every time a new skin or plugin is released a new version would have to be created and uploaded. Same goes for MP versions. Then you would have to make sure the latest versions of skins and plugins don't conflict with each other or are compatible with the included version of MP. The MP Extension Installer is supposed to avoid all this and I'm sure it will in time. [url=https://www.team-mediaportal.com/blogs/team_blog/mpei_v2_-the_easy_way_to_install_skins_and_plugins.html]MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - 1.2: MPEI V2 Extensions Installer[/url] After install you can check to see what other plugins and skins are available for download and this goes off to get them and installs them in the correct locations and sets them up. A far better way of doing things in my opinion. Instead of putting the effort into maintaining a monolithic installer, the same effort should be put into helping with MPEI. [/QUOTE]

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