There is lots of attempt to manage add-on (install/uninstall/update) so far.
However, there is no solution about this issue.
So, I developed application to manage add-on released on GitHub.
You can install add-ons released on GitHub (more than 2,000 add-ons are released)
Also you can update/uninstall add-ons installed on your PC.
Add-on information is stored on my Add-on database which is updated everytime, so you can update add-on without searching GitHub repository.
I tried your add-on and it works at the beginning (Blender 2.78c x64 and Windows 10 x64, I updated few add-ons) but now, I have an almost empty windows (see screenshot).
I updated Sniper add-on from your add-on and next, I checked in Blender if it was ok but the Sniper add-on had “missing files”. So I downloaded the last version of Sniper Add-on (1.3.2) and installed it FROM Blender and Add-on Manager doesn’t work anymore. I’m not sure if it is the reason but I let you what I have done.
how about addons that you have paid for? Current problem with cgcookie auto addon updater is this same thing we need solution that brings all addons in same manager paid or not.
Thanks for your indication.
Non-free add-on will be excluded because this add-on manager focused on GitHub add-ons.
I will add feature to exclude non-free add-on from this tool.
I think cg-cookie’s updater needs developer to do some extra work.
This tool does not need it because I setup own add-on database on my server and fetch add-on information from there.
It’s a dream to have an addon like this, but so far it didn’t work out for me; after updating for example the addon tissue, blender showed “fake module–addon missing,'bl-info’give bad performance”. Removed that from the appdata… folder > Installed the addon tissue from official website, and Tissue is running again. I tried 5 addons, and with one addon I had luck. Any suggestions welcome, maybe I am doing something wrong.
Running Yosemite with Blender 2.78c. Downloaded Blender_Add-on_Manager-darwin-x64.zip from github. Tried install from file. Log reports that it copied the file into the addons directory. But it doesn’t appear to be in the addon list to enable it.
Ah. It’s an application. I’m being very dumb. Yeah, it starts.
Installed on Yosemite w/ blender-2.78c. It updated the .db file, which is now 2.2MB in the correct path down /Applications/Blender\ Add-on […]/db/add-on_Manager. No obvious errors in app.log or lib.log. But I get no add-on list in the app browser. Nor can I search. It’s entirely empty.
This is one of the most useful things. Many thanks kind sir!
A minor suggestion: you might consider sub-sorting options such as “alphabetical” and “recent.”