I also thought about the issue of installing actionpacks from a potentially large collection, but didn't say anything because I didn't have any real suggestions for it at the time.
To me actionpacks feel more like modules than projects, which tends to make me think of my experience with Perl Package Manager (PPM). Rather than having to find a Perl module I need, download it manually, and install it, I can use PPM to do it for me using a command like 'ppm install somePackage'. Of course there are plenty of other systems like this these days; a package manager becomes essential whenever the number of available packages becomes large. If this MG3 dashboard that denstar mentioned could offer a similar package management feature for actionpacks, it could help users pick-and-choose from actionpacks available across multiple individual projects. Collaboration between different actionpack coders would become less important. It'd be perfectly fine to have 5 different file upload actionpacks or 15 different user management actionpacks; just pick the ones you like the most! Anyone know what the status is of this alleged dashboard? Does it exist, and if it does exist is there any plans to include package management features? -- Dennis On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is sort of a tangent, but... > > I think Mark Drew was working on an MG3 "dashboard" type of deal... > > I've been going nuts with Railo's extension stuff (easy way to install > code)... > > Maybe we could do something similar with the dashboard? Just point it > at location X to get a list of actionpacks, pick one, and then fire > off some type of install process? > > That way we're not locking wanna-be actionpack coders into the actual > MG release cycle deal... plus, being concerned about what code you put > on your box isn't a bad thing... er-- > > I'd typed this up before Dennis sent his git stuff, so um, yeah. > > -- > Our first intuitions are the true ones. > Emile M. Cioran > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Model-Glue Sites: Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "model-glue" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
