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Backend for LimeText
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Feature request: Installation of packages #116

Closed thewhitetulip closed 8 years ago

thewhitetulip commented 8 years ago

We can provide a command to install packages like Go language itself does.

When we do a go get, it'll run git clone in the backend. While installing ST3 plugins, you have to clone the plugin into a specific folder, we can automate that with a commandline utility which comes by default in Lime.

erbridge commented 8 years ago

There's a thing called Package Control for ST3 that automates a lot of that stuff, but I believe making a package manager first class in Lime would be a good thing.

thewhitetulip commented 8 years ago

@erbridge The beauty is that we can store the packages in github, give a repo name to link to the package name

and fetch and install the packages from github, so we don't need to have a website storing packages :-)

erbridge commented 8 years ago

Exactly. See https://packagecontrol.io.

thewhitetulip commented 8 years ago

If ST already had this feature then why do we need to manually install packages?

erbridge commented 8 years ago

In ST3, you first install Package Control, then use the Command Palette to install packages. Ideally Lime would be able to do it without Package Control, IMO.

If ST already had this feature then why do we need to manually install packages?

I'm not sure what you're referring to.

thewhitetulip commented 8 years ago

you first install Package Control

So basically you have to install the package manager manually, after which you can use command palette.

Lime would have this feature by default, that's a great news. I honestly feel that softwares these days are platforms of their own, so having a better UX/UI to the part which makes it a platform is very important!

I wanted to install the Go language plugin for sublime, I did not find a package manager in st3. That's what I was referring to.

erbridge commented 8 years ago

Ah. Get GoSublime using Package Control.

thewhitetulip commented 8 years ago

Yep, I want to contribute more code, at a loss at what to write :-) shall I build this package manager? or build more commands?

erbridge commented 8 years ago

This is very low priority. Higher priority is making the QML frontend work. Failing that, you could look at commands, but leave this until later.

thewhitetulip commented 8 years ago

To be honest, I tried looking into the front end and I couldn't understand anything :D

I'll start taking a look at the QML front end from now.

zoli commented 8 years ago

This is duplicate of https://github.com/limetext/lime/issues/542.

thewhitetulip commented 8 years ago

@zoli We can close that issue, because it should be in the backend repo right?

Also did you get a chance of looking at the issue migration script?

zoli commented 8 years ago

it should be in the backend repo right?

I don't think so, It's not related to backend. If we are going to have a package manager we'll have a separate repository for it and until then lime meta project is a proper place for gathering ideas and discussing features.

Also did you get a chance of looking at the issue migration script?

Not yet.

thewhitetulip commented 8 years ago

I thought it'd be a part of the backend.