On 22/11/2016 16:03, Paul Dupuis wrote:
Could someone from the Mothership (i.e. LiveCode) weigh in on where
people should publish LCB widgets?
If Kevin really wants a 1000 widgets, then LiveCode really should
designate an "official" place to put them or at least put links to them
(if not the actual widgets themselves). As has been illustrated in this
thread, some people want to host their widgets themselves and other want
a place to upload them to, so both should be supported.
I have no preference for whether this is a board on the Forum or the
Sample Stacks or a web based repository or where ever, but before lots
of widgets organically get deposited all over everywhere, where would
LiveCode like them placed?
Hi Paul,
For LiveCode 8, the original intention was that there would be an
"extension store" area on the main website. The idea was that it would
provide a searchable index of LiveCode Builder extensions, with
associated documentation, guides, examples, etc. The IDE would know how
to hook into the extension store. It would take care of downloading and
updating extensions for use in your apps, as well as publishing the
extensions that you create.
Unfortunately, this ran into a few problems, and around November 2015
the decision was made to drop the extension store feature from the
LiveCode 8 release and focus on the other elements. There were quite a
few other things that didn't make the cut; for example, LiveCode 8.0 was
originally planned to include the Objective C and Java FFI elements that
we're currently working on in the Infinite LiveCode project.
At the moment, unfortunately, we don't have any concrete plans or
timescale for resuming the extension store project -- which I think
would deliver what several people are asking for. Maybe there's an
opening here for someone to deliver a "LiveCode extensions hub" website
of their own?
If you're developing an open source widget or library, I personally
would recommend creating a git repository for each extension you create
-- not necessarily on GitHub, but anywhere that suits -- and storing
your widget's files in it with roughly the same layout we use for the
widgets we ship in LiveCode. You could then start a thread about your
widget on the LCB forum, or maybe post release announcements on this
mailing list.
It would be very easy for people to install the widget, because most of
the git hosting sites let you just download a zip of the files in the
repository. Unzip them, open the .lcb file in the extension builder,
hit 'Package' and 'Install' -- done.
I don't think there's any official "best way to distribute widgets"
guideline from LiveCode-the-company right now. For myself, I'm enjoying
seeing the various approaches that people are taking, and seeing what
works and what doesn't.
Peter
--
Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager
lcb-mode for Emacs: https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode
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