[NIT] Managing repositories in MC

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Sun Sep 21 19:33:32 UTC 2003


On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:

>
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
>
>> Small enhancement request - I have one repository for everything I 
>> post
>> - my FTP directory up on modules.sqf.org. When I want to use it for
>> another package, I need to find it in an existing package and from 
>> there
>> move it (or recreate it). D&D would be ideal, or the +Repos button 
>> could
>> have a dynamic menu for existing repositories, that would be pretty
>> convinient too.
>
> Yeah, that's not a bad idea.
> Another possibility would be to have a single list of repositories, 
> but to
> be able to individually enable/disable a repository by package.

I prefer a single list of repositories, with a per-package selection. 
So when you select a package, the selected repository switches to 
whatever was selected last time that package was selected. That's 
TSTTCPW, AFAICT.

> UI is an area I think Colin and I would be very grateful for any help 
> with
> - both in terms of polishing the current morphic code to add things 
> like
> DND, and in terms of finding new interaction styles for the same model.

Yes, definitely.

> I think the model is stable enough that it's not going to suddenly 
> render
> such work obsolete.

Agreed. Also, to whatever degree it does change, keeping the UI code in 
synch would be easier than doing it the first time.

Colin



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