Re: [jokosher-devel] Managing extensions

["Jens Geiregat" <jens geiregat gmail com>]

Or just give every extension its own folder? Keeps the extensions
folder clean, allows extensions to have their own files, no extraction
needed. Or force extensions to have one NAME.py file and allow a
NAME-folder.


Jens

On 10/2/06, Panos Laganakos <panos laganakos gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
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