Ahoy TextMateys.
http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2007/02/16/javascript-tools/
There is a need for better being able to share user bundles, for
example by publishing them from within TextMate. Other users should
then be able to subscribe to it just as easily as subscribing to an
RSS feed.
Yeah!
I think we could combine a subversion repo with commit triggered xml
creation to make this work.
I already have all that setup for bundleforge right now.
We would probably want to make a custom sub-class of the normal RSS
or ATOM formats. To be able to set our own crazy keys.
I prefer the idea of commit hooking the generation of a static file
instead of letting the client svn log the server to check for updates.
No sense forcing the server to think that hard that often.
I think it's really important that anyone be able to easily setup
their own little bundlecast on any server with a standard format/
process.
Integration
The key to making that seemless would be to really integrate it into
TextMate and E and whatever other editors standardize on these formats.
Putting the updating mechanism into a command is crappy since you'd
have to manually trigger it yourself.
Ideally, you'd be able to check a box or something somewhere to tell
TextMate to check for bundle updates too. Maybe a per-bundle setting
or just a global setting for all "BundleCasted" bundles.
Then there'd have to be a way to flag something as a casted commit.
Just to decouple the svn commit / deploy process a bit.
Riding edge is hip and all, but it's just too dangerous to be the
only option.
bundleforge?
I'm kindof torn on what bundleforge should be exactly. I really want
anyone to be able to share bundles easily and the whole updating and
subscribing goodness, yay. But, I don't want to become the pastie of
bundles. I don't want bundleforge to be nothing but a mass of long
abandoned half-finished carp.
thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
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