Re: [Banshee-List] Add-ins Repo - Tomboy team is looking for a home

[Jared Jennings <jaredljennings gmail com>]

Thanks for the response Gabriel and the good points.

I have read that and I believe we want to use some of the same concepts. We were thinking of allow users to search and install Add-ins from the UI. This would save some users the hassle of downloading and knowing where to install the Add-In. Does Banshee support something like this from the client or server side?

Obviously some users would want to manually install Add-ins while other users just want to search, pick and click install <G>

-Jared

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:

Hi Jared,

I assume you've read http://banshee.fm/contribute/write-extensions/
thoroughly, right?  As it says, Banshee Community Extensions's (BCE)
git repo is hosted on gitorious, which is free.  Alternatively you
could use github.

BCE has a few key elements:

1) Extensions don't have to be universally useful or super polished,
and anybody can make an account on gitorious (or github) and get added
to the BCE repo easily (vs hosting on GNOME git)

2) We have a create-extension script (plus a maintenance team) that
does everything needed to create a working extension ready for
committing to the repo.

3) Having all these extensions centralized in one repo lets us A) make
sure they build against the latest Banshee, if there are API breaks
B) share autoconf/automake boringness C) distribute them all in one
tarball, which makes it much easier for packagers

Feel free to copy this approach and any of our code, it's all FOSS.
Let us know if you have further questions.

Gabriel

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Jared Jennings
<jaredljennings gmail com> wrote:
> The Tomboy team is kicking around the idea of building a Add-Ins repository
> and we were wondering if we could get some insight from the Banshee team. We
> think we would like to mimic how Banshee is doing it now. It's simple, easy
> for the user and not too difficult for a developer. Is this something that
> could even be hosted by you?
> Thanks,
>
> -Jared
>

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