I agree that the repository itself might not be a good thing to connect
to as a workgroup,
but perhaps connecting to a maintained one with things known to be in
good working condition might be a good way to quickly explore and
experiment?
As Andy said, one could just connect to it, and check-out the interface,
and try thing out on the fly, to then grab what's of interest and
disconnect.
I'm not suggesting that being the Only way to explore the collection,
but One possibly interesting way to stumble upon things,
and to go along with an online browsable/seachable DB with thumbnails
and descriptions.
I there are any conflicts, could it make any permanent changes to which
just disconnecting from the workgroup wouln't resolve? Or can just
connecting to a workgroup possibly execute code?
By the way, what happens when connecting to a workgoup with things that
are already locally installed?
And also by the way, in the same vein,
what happens when installing an addon with various extensions
which includes things that are already installed?
are those things overwritten? or display popups?
So many questions sorry :)
On 17/01/2013 12:04 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote:
I'm not sure that concept scales... I don't wanna load a crapton of
addons I don't know the purpose of. What if some of them conflict with
each other? What if someone poorly coded a few events? Hell naw!
Besides, with something like Package Control, you gotta be savvy
enough to put up a repo and that weeds out complete beginners from
litterring the package universe. A shared folder is too easy to litter.
Here's a nice overview of how Package Control does things:
http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control/package_developers
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Andy Moorer <andymoo...@gmail.com
<mailto:andymoo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The nice thing about a workgroup is you can connect to it
whenever/wherever, without picking thru items and installing
stuff. You just connect, see what's there, give it a try.
But such a thing would have to be moderated and maintained, plus
secure. This kind of sharing is one of the untapped advantages of
Softimage, it drives me crazy that netview is just sitting there
unused...
On Jan 17, 2013, at 11:22 AM, olivier jeannel
<olivier.jean...@noos.fr <mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr>> wrote:
> A survival kit à Rray.de sounds better imho. That's where we all
go, no ?
>
>
> Le 17/01/2013 16:45, Stefan Kubicek a écrit :
>> I like the initiative, but what would be the advantage over
rray.de <http://rray.de>?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> One could also upload malicious files up to Dropbox and they
would spread
>>> to all those who share the folder, right?
>>> Does not sound very safe.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/1/17 Eugen Sares <softim...@keyvis.at
<mailto:softim...@keyvis.at>>
>>>
>>>> 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 <http://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
<mailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com>>
<emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com
<mailto: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 <http://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 <mailto: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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