gd-plug can install itself

[lihop]

Just something cool I noticed.

If you install gd-plug via the AssetLib, you can then add gd-plug to the plug.gd like so:

extends "res://addons/gd-plug/plug.gd"

func _plugging():
    plug("imjp94/gd-plug")

Then reinstall using the force flag to overwrite the AssetLib files:

godot --no-window -s plug.gd install force

Now gd-plug is installed and managed by itself!

I think that's pretty neat.

[imjp94]

Cool, I don't even know it is possible!

But, I recommend to upgrade gd-plug itself through upgrade command, godot --no-window -s plug.gd upgrade
As this setup would limit user to always install with force command, which I suggest to avoid unless you know what you are doing as it might overwrite your project files.

For example, if someone force install and accidentally left out install_root when including all files from plugin repository, gd-plug will overwrite all project files with identical names and directory like project.godot, icon.png, etc.

plug("HungryProton/scatter", {"include": ["."]}) # install_root missing

While by default, gd-plug will terminate the installation and avoid any loss of project files.

But making gd-plug manage itself seems to be a nice feature to consider, maybe it should check for update everytime executing status command