[TxMt] Re: GetBundles

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

On Oct 8, 2009, at 1:41 AM, Fletcher T. Penney wrote:
> I have also been unsuccessful in getting my bundle to show up in  
> GetBundles...


@Fletcher
Could you please tell me the URL(s) again?
And, did you try to find it via http://github.com/search ?


On Oct 7, 2009, at 11:08 PM, Adam Vandenberg wrote:
Some of my bundles show up on GetBundles (
> http://github.com/adamv/6502asm-tmbundle ) and some do not (
> http://github.com/adamv/perforce-tmbundle ).
> What's the secret?

Well,
github's search API is in some sense tricky to use. It has problems  
with a . in the project name.

The current workflow is the following:
• search via http://github.com/api/v1/yaml/search/KEYWORD and  
accumulate all pages
-- KEYWORD := ["bundle", "tmbundle", "textmate"]
-- this implies that a tmbundle has to be a root repository, ie eg it  
has to exist the file:
http://github.com/USER/foo-tmbundle/blob/master/info.plist
• take only those bundles if their names end on tmbundle or  
textmate.bundle or tm.bundle
• make the found items unique via username/project_name
• parse the github project description for stop words
-- stopwords := ["my own", "my personal", "personal bundle",  
"obsolete", "deprecated", "work in progress"]
-- if the description contains at least one of those words the item  
will be ignored
• read the project's info.plist
-- parse for the keys 'name' and 'uuid'
-- if no name and/or uuid is/are found the bundle will be ignored  
(this also insures that no "tmDelta bundles" are taken)



Unfortunately the perforce-tmbundle won't be find.
Maybe this is related to the issue that your perforce-tmbundle is a  
fork to evocateur/perforce.tmbundle.


If I look via http://github.com/search for perforce-tmbundle github  
outputs only evocateur's and the mirrored official bundle.

By my opinion the safest way to host a tmbundle on github which will  
come up in GetBundles is to create a NEW bundle with TM (no copy/ 
duplicate) and push it to github (try to avoid a . in the project  
name, make sure that the project name ends on tmbundle, and make sure  
that the file http://github.com/USER/FOO-tmbundle/blob/master/ 
info.plist will be found). And do not use github forks.

Nevertheless, I try to improve GetBundles' server search engine to get  
rid of that, but as I said - it could be tricky.

Cheers,

--Hans