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An attempt to port the spirit of the Processing visualization language to Adobe Indesign.
http://basiljs.ch/
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New file structure + /lib/download.sh #229

Open ffd8 opened 6 years ago

ffd8 commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately I missed the discussion #155 about the basiljs/bundle – with a newly proposed structure:

basiljs/basil.js basiljs/examples basiljs/libraries ...

Where will download.sh go? /libraries folder?
/bundle was great for masking such things.

Unfortunately removing /bundle breaks all previous scripts until person's header path is fixed... making sure it's worth it? (becomes main issue if b.less isn't a thing and most scripts would work).

trych commented 6 years ago

@ffd8 Yes, but that was actually the structure we agreed on in our Skype call last year. 😃

Yes, the header needs to change once, but that's the backwards incompatible change that we agreed on. And from my experience in using this new bundled version in class, I can tell you it is so much nicer to work with this bundled version that I think it was a really important move to have a user friendly workflow with basil.

Btw. the download.sh script gets generated on the fly as soon as you call the b.download() function. It gets put in a lib folder next to your basil.js file. Having said that, I wonder however, why we need a download.sh file at all and don't just generate the script string on the fly, execute it via b.shell() and never write it to disk in the first place. That would work just as well, "leave no traces" and leave the basil.js file even more flexible.