If we use dropbox we have to make damn sure nobody removes items
others
might be needing, which can happen by accident (I don't expect acts of
sabotage).
Also, what if someone updates his own tools, with some changes in
functionality that break downward compatibility?
Oder versions must remain accessible. We can't afford f*ing up other
people's production pipelines.
We could create another workgroup folder for every version that gets
uploaded, inside the uploader's personal folder.
Use the newer version? Disconnect from the old, connect to the new
folder.
But maybe it would be better to copy the stuff we need to some local
offline workgroup. Might be too risky otherwise.
Btw., does dropbox have any options to set write permissions?
Am 17.01.2013 10:22, schrieb Thomas Volkmann:
A dropbox-workgroup (or a workgroup on a FTP) that you can just
connect
to (or make a local copy and get updates every now and then) would be
awesome.
I think just having tools on a FTP is not a real advantage over
rray.de,
because you don't have any previews or descriptions for the tools
(other
than just to connect to a workgroup, where you can just try stuff,
because
it's already installed).
A community workgroup could add a community menu where you select
users
to see their tools... like this:
user-tools
- userFoo
- exporters
- rigging stuff
- ....
- userBar
- exporters
- animation helpers
- whatever
- userFnord
- curve tools
- make-awesome tools
- whatever
And maybe a similar structure for ICE/Render compounds.
That way a user can maintain his own section and will probably not
break
some other stuff. Since I never created any AddOns: is it enough to
have a
folder structure inside the addon-folder of the workgroup and place
stuff
there, or is a file in InstalledAddons where you register all that
stuff
necessary as well?
Anyway, I think if we could get something like that going, it would be
the shit!
Personally I would probably connect to it every now and then, check
some
stuff and take the tools I like into my personal workgroup. And of
course
upload some of my new tools to the community workgroup.
cheers,
Thomas
Gene Crucean <emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com>
<emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com>hat am 17. Januar 2013 um 09:07
geschrieben:
Why not just a good ol fashioned FTP?
I'll offer one up to *this* list and 3DPro (Be careful who you give it
to. Adults get access):
host: genecrucean.com
user: softimage
pass: Add0n555
I have lots of space and unlimited bandwidth... but if it gets abused,
I'll just take it down.
What do you guys think about this? It would need a decent
naming/directory structure so it didn't become a huge mess.
Maybe something like:
- Task
- Author
- Addon/Plugin/Script
- Versions
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jason S <jasonsta...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Don't know why I often put extra "buts" in my sentances,
in this case we were essentially saying the same thing :)
On 16/01/2013 11:42 PM, Jason S wrote:
Ya! but maybe like a common XSI_SAMPLES_DUMP Database,
to which we could then make like a more refined/finished DB out of
that,
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