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benschwarz / sublime-bower

Install Bower packages from within Sublime
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Show description in install list #22

Open sindresorhus opened 11 years ago

sindresorhus commented 11 years ago

Would be useful to show description of components in the install list (When choosing Bower: Install).

You could fork the back-end I use for http://sindresorhus.com/bower-components/ and only include the fields you need. Would also make it faster since you wouldn't have to use the hammered down registry. Can be hosted for free on Heroku.

Maybe there's some other metadata you could make use of.

With this back-end you could also sort the search results by popularity, so the most likely result would be at the top

benschwarz commented 11 years ago

Great suggestion… Sublime text only has so much space in the package list, so I think its important we have the name and repository (because it can indicate authenticity / the canonical source when there are forks)

I'll see how much more I can get into the list.

I'd also considered coming up with a local caching system for the package list, because its unlikely to change super often… in the end I decided not to because it would add so much complexity (and perhaps, issues being logged too!)

Having our / my own server sounds like a great idea