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Two wishes.. Or three? Or four? :)
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:35 pm
by utopiomania
My wish is a project management system like Assist for Liberty Basic, and a publish function like instantexe3 has,
only with a built in installer.
And that the run icon is changed from a gearwheel to a 'play' arrow, which is the norm.
Re: Two wishes.. Or three? Or four? :)
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:34 pm
by freak
From a quick look, Assist looks like nothing more than a version control system. There are literally tons of these out there. A lot of them free and well established. Why reinvent the wheel ?
Re: Two wishes.. Or three? Or four? :)
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:56 pm
by utopiomania
Well, I like it, it's both a version control system, and a project management system to me, very well thought
out, and built right into the package. No need to reinvent anything.
And about the publish thing, this could add a lot of potential to your product. The ability to create an install
package right out of the box would be a great benefit to PureBasic in my mind.
Ok, but the icon package you use for the PB IDE has a really nice arrow button in it? What about replacing the
gearwheel with that.
Re: Two wishes.. Or three? Or four? :)
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:30 pm
by jesperbrannmark
This is a great idea, its kind of a longshoot and a big job. But just came to think about it.
Under "compiler options" and "create exe" have "publish project".
Publish project could copy all involved files PB/includebinaries to a folder like build250/ then create the exe and run the script of your choice (for me FTP, for someone else maybe a install creator).
Easy to go back to a previous build, easy to publish a project straight to where you want it...
I would use this daily.
Re: Two wishes.. Or three? Or four? :)
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:15 am
by kenmo
The Publish feature sounds like a good candidate for a community-made IDE tool/plugin.
Because of the many, many targets that people may want to "publish" to (installer file, archive file, upload to web server, etc. for multiple OS's) it would probably be difficult for the PB team to make a feature that pleases everyone. But if it were open-source and community-made, new Publish features could be created and shared as often as desired.
For example, I have used Nullsoft's install maker (NSIS) in the past, which comes with a nice scripting language, but I think it is Windows-only. But for many users' needs, this is fine, and a PB plugin which runs a NSIS script would be cool indeed.
(I've actually had ideas for a few different PB IDE plugins this year, but I've held off because I vaguely recall reading that the IDE plugin/tool system was going to change soon... is this true? Or am I falsely remembering something...)
EDIT - didn't realize this thread was nearly two years old!