avoisin Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 I'm working on a new contrib(s) to deal with product_attributes dependencies and their handling. It's big though - probably 20+ files to modify, SQL, etc. Certainly not a simple couple of lines to change. What kind of experiences have people had putting such complexity into a contribution? Since there's no really good way to install contribs (that I know of), I'm worried that some people will be unable to properly install things and just give up. I'm going to have enough effort spent on architecture issues alone as it is. What can I do to help make the install procedure simpler?
Guest Posted January 18, 2005 Posted January 18, 2005 Good question...and one that is asked by only a few contribution coders! If the very nature of the contribution is a lot of cut-n-paste style modifications then there is nothing that can be done except document and comment the hell out of it. You could also include a set of stock osC files modified and let new store owners go from there... Good luck! Bobby
avoisin Posted January 18, 2005 Author Posted January 18, 2005 Good question...and one that is asked by only a few contribution coders! If the very nature of the contribution is a lot of cut-n-paste style modifications then there is nothing that can be done except document and comment the hell out of it. You could also include a set of stock osC files modified and let new store owners go from there... Good luck! Bobby <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll give it my best shot - BTW, I wanted to give props back for the osc-explain that you put up, nicely done. I think what I like best though was the install procedure, very straight forward, easy to follow, etc. And easier to use than the text-file dump that I'd been doing! Has anyone considered a contrib or a procudure to help on installing things? At work, we use Clearcase to do code management. While it isn't a perfect tool, once piece it has does pretty effective merges of code. As long as there aren't two lines that directly contradict each other, it can usually sort the rest out. There must be an open-source variety or free variety that could help here. Or how about this major task: create a listing of the most widely used contribs (say, the top 200 or so) and show which can be seemlessly integrated, or where there's going to be direct code conflicts. It's a guess, but I suspect that if there were a way to download the stock code, then be able to easily install modules (e.g. apt-get packages or something) then usage of OSC would vastly increase. Perhaps we should start a new thread just about installation procedures of contributions?
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