[Owncloud] Movable Apps

[Georg Ehrke]

Am 27.04.2012 um 18:27 schrieb Alessandro Cosentino:

> After those changes, I am a bit confused. Jakob and Jan suggested that
> I develop the feed reader app in the apps repo, since even core apps
> are going to move there. Two questions in particular:
> 
> 1. should I create a work branch of the apps repo or work in the
> master? I would say a work branch is better, since even core apps are
> going to move there. At the same time, I see that now all apps are
> developed in master (mail app, for instance);
> 
In my opinion we should create an apps-experimental repository where we can store apps that are unstable.
> 2. locally where should I clone the apps repo? I figure that if I
> clone it in the owncloud/app sub-folder, things will get messed up
> with the two git configurations.
You can clone all in the same directory
e.g.:
/path/3rdparty
/path/apps
/path/owncloud

Cheers,
Georg
> Thanks,
> Alessandro
> 
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Georg Ehrke
> <ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Am 27.04.2012 um 13:00 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 27.04.2012, at 09:54, Georg Ehrke <ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Am 26.04.2012 um 23:24 schrieb Thomas Müller:
>>>> 
>>>>> Am Donnerstag, dem 26.04.2012 um 23:17 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
>>>>>> On 26.04.2012, at 23:00, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> will this also result in a movement of all apps from the owncloud repo to the apps repo?
>>>> Are we also going to remove the 3rdparty files from the main repo?
>>> 
>>> Yes. We switch the the "3rdparty" repository.
>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Exactly
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cool - will make app develoment easier as well!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> How will the tar-balls on Release be created e.g. what will they contain?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This won´t change.
>>>>>> We still ship the apps that we all decide with the tar file independently from the repo.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ok
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Especially the last question is interesting from a distro packaging point of view (as I have it,
>>>>>>> because I recently started to work on bringing ownCloud to the real Debian repo).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Awesome. :-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> aka Sweet ;-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Our plan is to bring OC4 to the next Debian stable (7 aka Wheezy).
>>>>> A long way to go as some core dependencies are simple not there e.g. MDB2_Schema and SabreDAV.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It would be nice to have a core tar ball only with the file and sync handling stuff (and maybe contacts and calendar).
>>>>>>> An an additional tar ball containing the apps, which can then be packaged separately.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes. Thats possible now. And the good thing is that the apps can live outside the owncloud directory. I suppose thats should make packaging a bit more easy.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> For sure!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tom
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As off today the release tar ball 'only' contains the owncloud repo. Apps from the apps repo are not released at all. (By intention?)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In the future the release tarball can contain apps independently from the repo (core or apps).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Frank
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Take care,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Thomas Müller                 E-Mail: thomas.mueller at tmit.eu
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Am Donnerstag, dem 26.04.2012 um 22:49 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
>>>>>>>> Great work! :-)
>>>>>>>> This means that the apps folder can now live outside the owncloud folder.
>>>>>>>> Very nice
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Frank
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 26.04.2012, at 22:23, Georg Ehrke <ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>> today i finished my work on movable apps.
>>>>>>>>> I will merge it tomorrow into master.
>> I just merged it.
>>>>>>>>> Important changes:
>>>>>>>>>         • files app moved to app folder
>>>>>>>>>                 • there is still /owncloud/files/webdav.php
>>>>>>>>>         • php and css files will be loaded through /owncloud/index.php
>>>>>>>>>                 • example:
>>>>>>>>>                         • /?app=files -> app
>>>>>>>>>                         • /?app=files&getfile=/ajax/rename.php -> execute file of an app
>>>>>>>>>         • you can add %webroot% and %appswebroot% to css files
>>>>>>>>>                 • use in urls of background images
>>>>>>>>>         • please use our internal functions to generate paths
>>>>>>>>>                 • js: OC.filePath
>>>>>>>>>                 • php: OC_Helper::linkTo
>>>>>>>>>         • Files for *Dav and ampache are still in the app folder
>>>>>>>>>                 • i think about creating a /owncloud/remote folder where apps can write the php files for their remote services
>>>>>>>>>                         • what do you think about this?
>>>>>>>>>         • I made every app in main ownCloud repo work with this
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>> Georg
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