On 8 Feb, 2007, at 10:20, Tal Einat wrote:
On 2/8/07, Michael Haubenwallner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On an aside: searching Google for idle extensions is not an easy
thing.
Do you know of a listing of available extensions or even a
repository to
download from ?
AFAIK there is none.
If not, should there be one ?
- wiki.python.org could have a page with a list of links
- code.google.com/hosting could host such a repo
I believe there should be one, once the selection is sizeable (as
it is starting to become) and installation ease is improved...
The cheeseshop is another option and is used by a number of the web
frameworks. If you ask nicely the cheeseshop maintainer could even
add a classifier/category for IDLE extensions.
How could we ease the process of installing an idle extension ?
I see no problem to just make the extension a package and put it in
the
python path (site-packages).
Then we would need to change idlelib.configHandler.IdleConf to accept
the package path besides the idleDir and userDir config options.
This lets us eggify an extension and use ez_install for download and
installation.
This is a very good idea! A few points which need to be resolved
first:
Even if we could get idleConf to work like this, we would still
need a way for IDLE to know about extensions. Currently extensions
are "registered" by them adding an entry in config-extensions. How
would we do this otherwise?
Setuptools entry-points are one option for this. Another option is
installing all plugins in a special magic pacage and load all modules
in that package.
Currently user config is in a single config-extensions file. How
would we manage user configuration with each extension being a
separate module?
Regarding #2, I think we could still have user config in a single
config-extensions file, where config for all extensions is stored
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