[Soc-2016-dev] Weekly Report #03, Python Package Manager

[Peter D. Cassetta]

Hi all,

During the third week of GSoC, I've been working towards my goal for Jun 
6 - Jun 17 as stated in my proposal: "By the 17th, should have a 
functional prototype allowing at least to check for updates and update 
an add-on."

It was decided that the Add-on Index is best hosted on blender.org, even 
during GSoC testing. Sybren suggested a git repository; Sergey concurred 
and created the repo "blender-package-manager-addon" for this purpose.

With Sybren's help I've refined the format of the index JSON file. Wiki 
page with updated example: 
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:PeterCassetta/GSoC_2016/Server-Client_Plans#Server-Client_Communication

In addition, I've written a script which browses local addons and 
addons_contrib repos, parses the bl_info of each add-on, and 
automatically generates an index.json file with the data from all of 
them. This script is already working with every add-on in the addons and 
addons_contrib repos.

Later, I can expand this script to make it simple to add a new version 
of an add-on to the Add-on Index. (I haven't committed it anywhere yet, 
still have to ask Sybren where would be best to do so.)

Next week I'll be implementing basic add-on download/update 
functionality inside Blender.

Cheers,
Peter Cassetta

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