[Soc-2017-dev] Daily Report - Jul 18 & Jul 19 - Package Manager

[Joshua Leung]

Re the "api" field:
That looks suspiciously like a SVN revision number, meaning that these were
likely leftovers from when we still used SVN for version control.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Ellwood Zwovic <gandalf3 at blendermonkey.com>
wrote:

> July 18th:
>
> I tweaked the drawing code significantly (added better sorting), and made
> some UI/UX tweaks (only show the install button when installation is
> possible, allow `repo.json` to be omitted from repository url).
> Also added filelist generation to the repo creation script.
>
> July 19th:
>
> Today I added an uninstall function (not yet exposed) added detection of
> installed addons.
> I didn't get to exposing the uninstall function today, as it turns out
> that correctly handling multiple installed versions of the same addon at
> one time (this can happen outside of the package manager's control) took
> more work than expected.
>
> Plans for tomorrow: Finish exposing the uninstall function. Once the
> uninstall function is exposed, I'll be just about ready for some
> preliminary user testing. I'll set up a public repository and write some
> documentation to help facilitate this.
>
> Besides that, some other things on the todo:
>
> Restructure files. Everything is currently stuffed into two files (both
> well over > 500 lines). I've held off on restructuring code files, to make
> sure it's clear what a sensible structure is before spending time on it.
> It's now been a little while, and I still like my original plan: separate
> the code which does the actual package management and the code which
> provides an interface to said package management. (also separate the code
> common to both; container classes, utility functions, etc).
>
> Spruce up metadata display, add settings display.
>
> Add support level filter, add installed/available/updates filtering.
>
>
> Question:
> I noticed some addons have a strange "api" field in their bl_info,
> containing a seemingly random number. I couldn't find any mention of it in
> the wiki
> <https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Py/Scripts/Guidelines/Addons/metainfo>
> .
> Here's an example from contrib: the sun position addon
> <https://git.blender.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi/blender-addons-contrib.git/blob_plain/3dd9b462a24910f416a6a3e7ddf008f5f67ff68a:/sun_position/__init__.py>.
> Does anyone know what this is?
>
>
>
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