Feature Proposal: Simplify building and using local extension repositories

Motivation

Support for local extension repositories has been around for a long time, but the effort to build and use alternate repositories is not well documented.

Description and Documentation

This proposal is split from FormallySupportMultipleExtensionVersions - originally AddBetaSubWebToExtensionsWeb

Some of the items under consideration:

• Create a Contrib that packages all of the pieces of a local repository
  • Under development by WillNorris as ExtensionsRepositoryContrib
• Improve documentation of local repositories
• Enhance BuildContrib to simplify uploading to an alternate repository
• Deal with PackageForm issues when uploading to an alternate repository.
  • Add an alternate script/web/suffix parameters for a 2nd recovery location
  • If download fails, or download topic does not include a PackageForm, attempt the alternate location
  • If download/recover from upload location succeeds, use that form.
• Other possible enhancements
  • Optionally filter the author= field on %META:TOPICINFO, and user field of %META:FILEATTACHMENT to ProjectContributor, or other override specified in build.pl

Examples

Revised build.pl upload dialog

Loaded config from /home/myuser/.buildcontrib
Basing new topic on /var/www/SVN/foswiki/DirectedGraphPlugin/DirectedGraphPlugin.txt
Preparing to upload to:
Web:     Sandbox/Beta
PubDir:  http://mysite.org/pub
Scripts: http://mysite.org/bin
Suffix:

If PackageForm is missing from the upload topic/location
the following alternate location will be used to attempt to
recover the package form:
Web:     Extensions
Scripts: http://foswiki.org/bin
Suffix:

Is that correct? Answer 'n' to change? [y/n] 

Impact

WhatDoesItAffect:

%WHATDOESITAFFECT%

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Implementation

-- Contributors: GeorgeClark - 18 Feb 2010

Discussion

One more day to raise concern or give feedback before this one is passed by 14-day rule

-- KennethLavrsen - 04 Mar 2010

Proposal has been accepted by 14-day rule.

-- KennethLavrsen - 09 Mar 2010