2013-08-27, 22:26
Dear Team-XBMC, coders, developers,
I have a request or maybe I just need a good answer or to be pointed in the right direction.
XBMC checks the checksum file on the server to know when it's ready to update a plugin/script from a repository. Is there a way of handling individual file changes for purposes of development, when a addon has a lot of library files. Is this something that XBMC can handle, or is some kind of build script needed. Git would do this but there does't seem to be a way for xbmc to run the addon from where the code is checked out.
The idea is to publish beta plugins in a 'developer mode', so that user can get the update instantly instead of waiting for someone to prepare the repo.
At the moment we are copying files and there is a risk of missing something.
It's quite a bit different when more than one coder is working on a plugin, while the checksum version method is great for deployment, it doesn't work well for collaborative development. We would like a 'development' mode where we could just let git do the code management directly.
I have a request or maybe I just need a good answer or to be pointed in the right direction.
XBMC checks the checksum file on the server to know when it's ready to update a plugin/script from a repository. Is there a way of handling individual file changes for purposes of development, when a addon has a lot of library files. Is this something that XBMC can handle, or is some kind of build script needed. Git would do this but there does't seem to be a way for xbmc to run the addon from where the code is checked out.
The idea is to publish beta plugins in a 'developer mode', so that user can get the update instantly instead of waiting for someone to prepare the repo.
At the moment we are copying files and there is a risk of missing something.
It's quite a bit different when more than one coder is working on a plugin, while the checksum version method is great for deployment, it doesn't work well for collaborative development. We would like a 'development' mode where we could just let git do the code management directly.
