did you try to search for it?

if I go to the packages site and type in "packages" - what do I get?
http://plugins.cakephp.org/package/josegonzalez/package_installer
 

Am Montag, 6. August 2012 06:33:59 UTC+2 schrieb NdJ:
>
> What is the current state (if any) for the packaging of CakePHP plugins?
>
> We currently have (Plugins listed here http://plugins.cakephp.org/) which 
> is great, but it might be even more awesome if from a cake shell (or 
> similar) you could search for plugins and install (with dependency 
> resolution) new plugins, much the same way as "apt-get" works for Debian, 
> "npm" for Node and "pear" for PHP... etc etc etc.
>
> Seems you might be able to leverage Github pulling tarballs from there 
> (Terms of Service check!!) which then means "all that is required" is some 
> kind of agreeable CakePHP package meta definition file -plus- a central 
> index that can serve responses pointing to Github tarballs.
>
> An example might be:-
> $ cake packages search foobar
>
> Which would send a query to "a suitable host" that stores an index of all 
> registered CakePHP plugins that contain the meta definition file, that host 
> would return information about all packages related to foobar.  So I might 
> then type:-
> $ cake packages install the-foobar-thing
>
> Which in this case would pull the latest "the-foobar-thing" 
> tarball/zipball package from Github, unpack it, parse the meta definition 
> file to determine if there are dependencies and process any installation 
> steps.
>
> Thoughts, comments, problems, solutions, someone else already done or 
> doing this?
>
> N
>
>

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