Re: [sc-dev] its time for a User library

[crucial felix <felix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 1, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Till Bovermann wrote:

> I installed two different add-ons which interfere (conflicting  
> names, etc...).

I think that in our little world there should be courtesy to not use  
conflicting names.
It happens currently because people develop unaware of other people's  
usage.
If it were in a single repos then the conflict would have been  
spotted easier.
Renaming files usw. is easy with svn.

> But I want to use them both.
> (sounds like namespace...)
> Or I want to use either the one or the other.
> This means, that I need to explicitely include one lib to a patch  
> (meaning to not include the other one...)

to a patch ?  I don't quite understand that part.

I think we should just use the current simple file of which paths to  
include in the compile.

Then a gui based utility can be written that scans the installed  
UserLib packages, finds all the
.quark files (or whatever they are named) and offers to add/remove  
packages to the compile list.
It would automatically select dependent packages and would show  
package descriptions.

The utility simply edits that text file.  gui-averse people can  
simply edit the text file.



> might something like this be possible this way?
>
> till