[Bf-committers] Script Xtras (proposal)

[Mike Belanger]

Perhaps I'm too late in the discussion, but have existing Python distribution tools been considered?

I was cruising through the plone site today, and noticed this tool : 

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

Of course, I guess its probably as much work to integrate this with Blender, as writing a new one.  But in case
it isn't, there it is.


Mike Belanger ( Mikahl )
www.watchmike.ca





On 2010-02-14, at 5:42 PM, Campbell Barton wrote:

> added initial support for extensions (Add Gears script),
> most of the things that need doing now are not so hard..
> 
> - install extension operator (maybe remove extension operator too),
> can start simple and become more advanced: extract zipfiles, create
> extensions folder for the user.
> - extension categories, only one at the moment but sure that will change.
> - improve the UI, set out some kind of standard for formatting the
> descriptions, access methods etc.
> 
> all of these can be done in python only if someone wants to have a go.
> 
> would be nice to have word wrapping in the UI also but thats not so trivial.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> --- On Sun, 2/14/10, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> By installer I mean a script thats probably 50-150 lines of
>>> code, all
>>> it needs to do is copy files from some place on the users
>>> hard disk to
>>> a user script folder, It can do some nice things like "Your
>>> scripts
>>> dir doesnt exist, would you like it to be created?", as
>>> well as
>>> extracting files from a zip.
>>> Martin wrote something like this for 2.4x.
>> 
>> The keyconfig import operator for 2.5 works like that too, it's super simple.
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> 
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