Small sugestions regarding modman

[ziggybcn]

It's a a great idea to have this modman tool Really useful but I would like to suggest two small additions/changes:
1.- Make the repositories list a remote file, so the modman can also show new modules. Having this hardcoded is a bit rare. It can be just the same txt file placed anywhere at monkeycoder.co.nz or something... ?
2.- It would be nice if the modman notifies on missing version control systems. That is, it seems to just not show git or hg modules if command line tools are not present. Some additional information such as: You need Mercurial to install this module, with the appropriate link somehow would be much better.

those are just a couple of small ideas. No sure if they make sense. Also, not sure if they're also on any todo list or something

Also, the Module_ext used to install them... Is there any way to customize this so them gets installed whenever you want?

Hope this is seens as a constructive post. Also, if there's not dev time to make this, but they're reasonable additions, I may have some time next week, so I could try to get something done in this area.

[blitz-research]

Make the repositories list a remote file, so the modman can also show new
modules.

This'll happen eventually, but I'm a little wary of making direct http
connections. When I tried this in the bmx days, I ran into problems with
people behind 'proxies' and 'NAT' and other fun stuff, and I just wanted to
keep it simple for now.

How does software generally deal with proxies? I assume instead of
connecting with, say, http://monkeycoder.co.nz/modules.txt, you connect
with...what? What does the user configure here?

It would be nice if the modman notifies on missing version control
systems.

Yep, am planning on doing this, probably via a 'git unavailable' dialog at
startup, and also by leaving the modules in the main window but with a 'git
unavailable' status.

Also, the Module_ext used to install them... Is there any way to
customize this so them gets installed whenever you want?

It currently looks at their MODPATH to find a path ending in /modules_ext,
so they can relocate it by modifying this. The 'top' module dir still needs
to be called modules_ext though, which may be undesirable.

I guess I could add a new setting, something like: MODPATH_EXT so they can
completely rename the modpath used by modman...dunno, will have to think
about this some more.

I was also thinking about some kind of 'config' app that provides a
frontend for config.txt files - it could perhaps try to autodetect the
location of various tools/SDKS, and allow them to edit stuff...?

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:03 PM, ziggybcn notifications@github.com wrote:

It's a a great idea to have this modman tool Really useful but I would
like to suggest two small additions/changes:
1.- Make the repositories list a remote file, so the modman can also show
new modules. Having this hardcoded is a bit rare. It can be just the same
txt file placed anywhere at monkeycoder.co.nz or something... ?
2.- It would be nice if the modman notifies on missing version control
systems. That is, it seems to just not show git or hg modules if command
line tools are not present. Some additional information such as: You need
Mercurial to install this module, with the appropriate link somehow would
be much better.

those are just a couple of small ideas. No sure if they make sense. Also,
not sure if they're also on any todo list or something

Also, the Module_ext used to install them... Is there any way to customize
this so them gets installed whenever you want?

Hope this is seens as a constructive post. Also, if there's not dev time
to make this, but they're reasonable additions, I may have some time next
week, so I could try to get something done in this area.

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[blitz-research]

Also...I keep meaning to ask, can you get fontmachine up on a repos
somewhere so I can add it to modman?

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Mark Sibly blitzmunter@gmail.com wrote:

Make the repositories list a remote file, so the modman can also show
new modules.

This'll happen eventually, but I'm a little wary of making direct http
connections. When I tried this in the bmx days, I ran into problems with
people behind 'proxies' and 'NAT' and other fun stuff, and I just wanted to
keep it simple for now.

How does software generally deal with proxies? I assume instead of
connecting with, say, http://monkeycoder.co.nz/modules.txt, you connect
with...what? What does the user configure here?

It would be nice if the modman notifies on missing version control
systems.

Yep, am planning on doing this, probably via a 'git unavailable' dialog at
startup, and also by leaving the modules in the main window but with a 'git
unavailable' status.

Also, the Module_ext used to install them... Is there any way to
customize this so them gets installed whenever you want?

It currently looks at their MODPATH to find a path ending in /modules_ext,
so they can relocate it by modifying this. The 'top' module dir still needs
to be called modules_ext though, which may be undesirable.

I guess I could add a new setting, something like: MODPATH_EXT so they can
completely rename the modpath used by modman...dunno, will have to think
about this some more.

I was also thinking about some kind of 'config' app that provides a
frontend for config.txt files - it could perhaps try to autodetect the
location of various tools/SDKS, and allow them to edit stuff...?

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:03 PM, ziggybcn notifications@github.comwrote:

It's a a great idea to have this modman tool Really useful but I would
like to suggest two small additions/changes:
1.- Make the repositories list a remote file, so the modman can also show
new modules. Having this hardcoded is a bit rare. It can be just the same
txt file placed anywhere at monkeycoder.co.nz or something... ?
2.- It would be nice if the modman notifies on missing version control
systems. That is, it seems to just not show git or hg modules if command
line tools are not present. Some additional information such as: You need
Mercurial to install this module, with the appropriate link somehow would
be much better.

those are just a couple of small ideas. No sure if they make sense. Also,
not sure if they're also on any todo list or something

Also, the Module_ext used to install them... Is there any way to
customize this so them gets installed whenever you want?

Hope this is seens as a constructive post. Also, if there's not dev time
to make this, but they're reasonable additions, I may have some time next
week, so I could try to get something done in this area.

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[ziggybcn]

How does software generally deal with proxies? I assume instead of connecting with, say, http://monkeycoder.co.nz/modules.txt, you connect with...what?

I usualy use the system network settings and make a HTTP request, so if the system proxies and networking settings are properly set, it may be able to access the txt file in the same way it would access the regular web.
As long as the user is not sending data to the server other than the document request, just browsing the txt file, it should be safe, shouldn`t it?

Otherwise, we could maybe have a hardcoded hg or git repository somewhere that just contains a txt file with the list of repositories? That would do it too

Regarding FontMachine: Yes, of course! Fontmachine is here: https://code.google.com/p/fontmachine/ It's Mercurial based.

[blitz-research]

As long as the user is not sending data to the server other than the
document request, just browsing the txt file, it should be safe, shouldn`t
it?
No idea. It was only a problem for a handful of people who wanted to use
bmx from work and had some weird proxy setup - but they were very vocal!
All my code did was a simple http request, but we had to do something fancy
to get around some problem, can't remember what it was now, and we never
quite got it100% right.

But perhaps in this case, if they have problems with a simple http request
they'll have problems with git/hg too anyway so maybe it's not worth
worrying about.

Otherwise, we could maybe have a hardcoded hg or git repository somewhere
that just contains a txt file with the list of repositories? That would do
it too

Sounds pretty good to me. People can even send pull requests to get their
modules added too!

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:30 PM, ziggybcn notifications@github.com wrote:

How does software generally deal with proxies? I assume instead of
connecting with, say, http://monkeycoder.co.nz/modules.txt, you connect
with...what?

I usualy use the system network settings and make a HTTP request, so if
the system proxies and networking settings are properly set, it may be able
to access the txt file in the same way it would access the regular web.
As long as the user is not sending data to the server other than the
document request, just browsing the txt file, it should be safe, shouldn`t
it?

Otherwise, we could maybe have a hardcoded hg or git repository somewhere
that just contains a txt file with the list of repositories? That would do
it too

Regarding FontMachine: Yes, of course! Fontmachine is here:
https://code.google.com/p/fontmachine/ It's Mercurial based.

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