@BrainforgeUK Thanks for your PR. i have just fixed some minor code style issues. I hope i get some time to test this feature too. If you have any questions about the changes I made please feel free to ask me.

@BrainforgeUK it looks like you have mix up tabs and spaces in the last commit again ;)

Hey! After applying your patch all I see is a blank input field in the search tools. Entering text data does nothing in it.

@BrainforgeUK i can confirm the result of @akritianand

To me it looks like this in the backend.

Fixed - package field class file missing!
New file got left out of git by accident.

Be better to change the package field class in package.php into a standard form field.
i.e. move
from :
/administrator/components/com_installer/models/fields/package.php
to :
/libraries/joomla/form/fields/package.php

Can then add package as a plugins list search - it makes sense to distribute several plugins as a package.
administrator/index.php?option=com_plugins
Other people may find the same form field useful elsewhere.

Will implement above shortly!

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on acb7121

I have tested this item ? unsuccessfully on acb7121

@BrainforgeUK nice addition! The functionality is working correctly, but some code style improvements are still needed (tabs & spaces) as commented by others before.

We seem to have got stuck with this.
Not in Joomla 4.0
How do we move on?

@BrainforgeUK Please fix coding style as mentioned previously. Use tabs (not spaces) to indent code.

For your reference on coding style: https://developer.joomla.org/coding-standards/php-code.html

can be a nice addition for 3.9 imo
after a quick test with one of mine very old package some feedback:

you should add the "linkable" features to modules too

Can you rebase that branch for Joomla 4?

Joomla 4 - I've tried to do a pull request like this.
#20152

I'm using PHPStorm, and tried rebasing to Joomla 4 as suggested, but unsuccessful.

You have added completely unrelated code3 to this issue

You must use a different branch and create a different pull request for each issue you are trying to resolve

In your git client revert this latest change, commit and push

Then create a NEW branch and pull from staging
Make your new changes, commit and push
go to https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms and you will see info that you can create a new pull request from your new branch

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on c611354

Tested on J3.9 alpha

works for me as expected

Set to "closed" on behalf of @Quy by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/17585

Please rebase for J4.