[Owncloud] Movable Apps

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 27.04.2012, at 18:42, Georg Ehrke <ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de> wrote:

> 
> Am 27.04.2012 um 18:40 schrieb 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.
> I just saw that there is already a repository called apps-playground.

Exactly. You can use that if you want.
But a branch of the apps repo is also fine.


>>> 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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