Re: [jokosher-devel] Managing extensions

["Panos Laganakos" <panos laganakos gmail com>]

maybe install the extensions in .tar.gz archives?

ie: cubase-exporter.tar.gz would contain:

/
/ce-main.py
/ce-functions.py
/images/
/images/icon.png
/images/icon-02.png
/README

If its not resource hungry to untar the extensions on loading or at
point of usage, I think its quite tidy that way.

Or as you said modules or python eggs.

On 10/2/06, John Green <john thegreens co uk> wrote:
> I've started to look into the 'Manage Extensions' option in the
> extensions menu and have a few questions on how extensions will be
> deployed/installed.
>
> At the minute all the extensions we have are in a single directory. Some
> of them consist of more than one file (typically a .py and a .glade for
> instance).  Some are a single .py. Freesound search has more than one
> .py file. When  jokosher loads the extensions it retrieves a list of all
> .py files and executes the startup() function (if one exists). If we
> allow extensions to span multiple .py files then this causes a couple of
> problems. Firstly only one file will contain the startup function and
> jokosher needs a method of determining which it is. Secondly as we add
> more and more extensions with multiple files then eventually there will
> be a clash of names. Perhaps we need to organise each extension within
> its own subdirectory. Or we could just compel extensions to be contained
> within a single module but this seems a bit restrictive to me.
>
> How will the extensions be packaged? A simple extension consisting of a
> single .py file is one thing but how will we package up multiple file
> extensions. There is mention in the wiki of eggs about which I know
> nothing I'm afraid. Are there ubuntu packages for it? The site pointed
> to only seems to have source tarballs. We could also accept .tar.gz and
> .zip files.
>
> I think it would be helpful if extensions had a narrative that described
> their purpose briefly in one line so that the manager can display it in
> the list of installed extensions. (I'm thinking similar to firefox
> extensions here.) Of course you can only uninstall user extensions.
> Should you also be allowed to install a user extension with the same
> name as a system one? The user one would override the system one.
>
> --
> John
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