I would define a JSON file that contains the info we want to have for all the
plugins–presumably a subset of our plugin.json file: author, version, name,
url, description. Basically, whatever we want to display in the Avogadro UI to
give the user enough information to decide whether they want to install or not.
We can statically host the JSON file anywhere to begin with, but preferably on
a domain you own where we can eventually replace the static file with a web
service that returns JSON. If we get the JSON and the URL right, we can make
the change from static file to dynamic file without any change to the C code
making the request.
Or we could take it one step further and just keep a list of URLs for all the
git repos we know of for plugins, and write a simple nightly script that grabs
the plugin.json file from each repo, extracts the five keys we need, and
compiles the full JSON file.
That might be totally sufficient for a long time, until we get enough traction
to want to keep the info cached in a local database, and allow people to submit
their plugins automatically, etc.
Paul
On Jan 10, 2017, 11:18 PM -0500, Geoffrey Hutchison
<geoff.hutchi...@gmail.com>, wrote:
Hi Paul,
I met with Ethan today and he has a working version of the plugin downloader.
What’s your thought on a source for the list of repositories? We have the
avogadro.cc domain - but I’d like to make sure that there’s an easy way (e.g.,
git) to update the list.
Should I create plugins.avogadro.cc as a subdomain and just serve one URL for
now:
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplugins.avogadro.cc%2Frepositories%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cpaulboone%40pitt.edu%7C0dba783f8f9c474b03c608d439d8f009%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1&sdata=JqLacIB20Q7ASmRO4u8858D1XtmZbfv2%2B%2F0lAUo9YAQ%3D&reserved=0
I can also easily create something from GitHub.io:
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Favogadro.github.io&data=01%7C01%7Cpaulboone%40pitt.edu%7C0dba783f8f9c474b03c608d439d8f009%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1&sdata=yDVogwutny%2FVwVRnKwMSmbSOvX%2Bu8X%2FfR7YmNPZsvj0%3D&reserved=0
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAvogadro%2FAvogadro.github.io&data=01%7C01%7Cpaulboone%40pitt.edu%7C0dba783f8f9c474b03c608d439d8f009%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1&sdata=b9mEuKVdhk%2FXiT8kWMvHigw1sEIGV1vChbzx2e9gDTs%3D&reserved=0
I agree that eventually this will likely become a web service, so I’d like to
have some reasonable flexibility.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
-Geoff
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