A heads up that with the much appreciated help of Kovid we have integrated this plugin into the Calibre codebase for the next release.
At the time you upgrade Calibre you should uninstall this "Plugin Updater" plugin, as it is superceded by a "Plugin Updates" plugin that will come with Calibre.
Due to some logic Kovid added to Calibre a while ago (that I had forgotten about), by keeping the same "Plugin Updater" name for this plugin it will automatically uninstall the version you have downloaded from this thread and prevent you from installing it again.
You can see from the screenshots below that the integration now has:
- Buttons to get new or check for updated plugins from the Preferences->Plugins dialog
- A menu option in Preferences to check for new plugins
- A hyperlink at the bottom right showing when plugin updates are available, checked when Calibre starts up (and every 24 hours if you keep Calibre open that long)
- As per the current plugin, updating of the toolbar icon to indicate updates available
When Calibre is released I will be marking this plugin as "Deprecated" in the plugin index thread. I will keep the download available on the first post for a little while for users who for whatever reason are sticking to legacy Calibre versions. Though I would suggest for those of you who do that your "pool of plugins" to choose from is going to diminish over time as the plugins themselves increase their dependencies on later Calibre versions.