Perhaps I'm too late in the discussion, but have existing Python distribution tools been considered?
I was cruising through the plone site today, and noticed this tool : http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools Of course, I guess its probably as much work to integrate this with Blender, as writing a new one. But in case it isn't, there it is. Mike Belanger ( Mikahl ) www.watchmike.ca On 2010-02-14, at 5:42 PM, Campbell Barton wrote: > added initial support for extensions (Add Gears script), > most of the things that need doing now are not so hard.. > > - install extension operator (maybe remove extension operator too), > can start simple and become more advanced: extract zipfiles, create > extensions folder for the user. > - extension categories, only one at the moment but sure that will change. > - improve the UI, set out some kind of standard for formatting the > descriptions, access methods etc. > > all of these can be done in python only if someone wants to have a go. > > would be nice to have word wrapping in the UI also but thats not so trivial. > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Martin Poirier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> --- On Sun, 2/14/10, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> By installer I mean a script thats probably 50-150 lines of >>> code, all >>> it needs to do is copy files from some place on the users >>> hard disk to >>> a user script folder, It can do some nice things like "Your >>> scripts >>> dir doesnt exist, would you like it to be created?", as >>> well as >>> extracting files from a zip. >>> Martin wrote something like this for 2.4x. >> >> The keyconfig import operator for 2.5 works like that too, it's super simple. >> >> Martin >> >> >> __________________________________________________________________ >> The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! >> Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
