I want to commit to a Plone package. Do I include it with mr.developer? If yes, the code is in buildout-folder/src. After I made my changes, how do I commit with my existing github account? Should I use something different than mr.developer?
If you have a fork of the package in your github account, then using mr.developer is an excellent way to make local changes.
Just use normal git tools. The repository is indeed located in the src/ directory, just cd to it and use a normal git workflow. Then use GitHub to issue a pull request to the original package for your changes.
All mr.developer does is make it easier to switch buildout to use the development egg stored in src/ and to make the workflow of working with 1 or more repositories for eggs-under-development. It doesn't require you to do anything special with a version-control managed package.
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I'm currently starting with JFrog Artifactory. Up to now I have only been working with source code control systems not with binary repositories.
Can someone please tell how the versioning of files is done in Artifactory?
I have been trying to deploy a file, then change it and deploy it again.
The checksum has changed, so it's the new file. But it seems that the old version is gone.
So it looks like there are no version of files. If I want that do I have to do it in the filename?
I found versions related to packages.
But I was thinking to use it for other files as well.
Thanks for your help
Christoph
Artifactory, unlike a VCS system, is not managing a history of versions for a given path. When you deploy an artifacts over an existing artifact, it will overwrite it (you can block this by configuring the right permissions).
If you wish to manage permission for generic artifacts (ones which are not managed by a known package manager like npm, Maven etc.), there are a couple of options you can take:
Add the version as part of the artifact name, for example foo-1.0.0.zip
Add the version as part of the artifact path, for example /foo/1.0.0/foo.zip
Combine the 2 above approaches, for example /foo/1.0.0/foo-1.0.0.zip
Use an existing package management tool which is flexible enough to handle generic packages. Many people are using Maven to manage all types of packages beyond Java ones (it comes with its pros and cons)
From the Artifactory point of view there are a couple of capabilities you can leverage:
Generic repositories - aimed at managing proprietary packages which are not managed by a known package manager
Custom repository layout - can be used to define a custom layout for your generic repository and assist with tasks like automatic snapshot version cleanup
Properties - can be used to add version (and other) metadata to your artifacts which can used for searching, querying,resolution and more
Lastly, Conan is another option you should consider. Conan is a package manager intended for C and C++ packages. It is natively supported in Artifactory and can give you a more complete solution for managing your C libraries.
I am trying to use meteor typeahead package in my project. It has some issues with it, so the developer asked me to create a local PR and use it. The thing is that I don't know how to create a local PR. Do I need to create a local package and then add it to my project, etc. I cloned the repository to my local machine, and changed the code that I need, but I don't know what to do after this. Can somebody help me with this please.
Thanks
After you cloned the package just copy all the files in a packages/name_of_the_package folder of your Meteor project.
You can also create a symbolic link between the package folder and the package folder in the Meteor project. So all changes are automatically reflected.
Then, add it as usual with meteor add name_of_the_package or by modifying the .meteor/packages file. Meteor will look in priority in the local package folder instead of the official repository.
Create a fork of the desired repo.
Clone your fork of the repo as a sub folder of the "packages" folder within your app.
Remove the atmosphere package by performing a meteor remove some:package
Add the package back, just as you normally would, with meteor add some:package. Meteor will find the local copy and use it, instead of downloading the package from Atmosphere.
Make the desired code changes, testing it before you commit.
Commit your changes to Github.
Create a pull request within the fork on Github.
If you want to use a package between two projects, what's the best way to handle it. Considering two scenarios :-
First Scenario
Git Repository with the two projects like
root folder
-- Mobile App Folder
-- Web Folder
So both projets are in the same repository
Second Scenario
Each project is in separate Git repositories and we want to share the package between those projects.
What's a good ways to handle each scenario? ( Either using the same method for both, or different methods for each scenario)
You need to be aware of how Meteor handles package scanning when confronted with meteor add package :
searching for it inside the local packages/ folder of your app.
searching for it inside every folder specified in the PACKAGE_DIRS environment variable.
searching for it on Atmosphere.
Not sure about the specific order but I'm assuming the one that makes most sense.
So your question is basically where to store the package for an optimal workflow.
Using the fist scenario, you would store your private packages inside the app root folder under packages/, you'll just have to git pull from the repo to get the latest versions of the packages. Then you would have to make sure to define correctly the PACKAGE_DIRS env variable, something like this :
export PACKAGE_DIRS=$PACKAGE_DIRS:$HOME/meteor/my-repo/packages
Using the second scenario, you would store each private package on its own git repo, then pull them into a local $HOME/meteor/packages of yours and don't forget to set PACKAGE_DIRS appropriately.
export PACKAGE_DIRS=$PACKAGE_DIRS:$HOME/meteor/packages
I would tend to go with the second scenario if there's a chance that these private packages may be reused for other projects, if you are sure they only make sense in a particular project, then storing them along in the repo is OK.
Another option would be to symlink your shared private packages into the "packages" folder of each of your apps.
So assume you have have your shared package in the folder /dev/mysharedpackage. You could create a symlink via ln -s /dev/mysharedpackage packages/mysharedpackage and then add the package via meteor add.
Here is a Meteor Cast on this topic: https://www.meteorcasts.net/ep/3
what is the convention for specifying meteor requirements? if for example I want to add to a github repository. for other to easily deploy.
some thing like python requirements.txt.
The requirements are located in the .meteor/ directory in the packages file. Simply add the .meteor/ directory to your git repository and the requirements will automatically be downloaded when the user runs meteor.
I have a private bundle that I import in the vendor.
Now, I'm working in my project and want to edit some code in the vendor bundle.
Now I've done that and want to commit to code, so I go the dir of that bundle and say: "git commit -a" so I give a message, save and now I have a commit. Oke, "git push" and give the response "Everything is up-to-date"... So I can't push that but I can commit??
Is this not a way to commit? Should I just clone the repo and work there?
You should never edit the vendor code directly - this is the whole point of dependency management.
Composer basically works by looking at your composer.json file, and fetching the repositories and versions you specify. If you need to make changes to one of your dependencies, you should make the change in the original repository, push the changes up to GitHub (or wherever you're hosting the code) and run composer update.
When Composer installs a vendor, it checks out a particular commit, so you are not on a branch. You need to checkout the master branch — or whichever you're using — and commit to it and push it.
Its a long time ago that I asked this question. Mean while I got the answer but never updated my stackoverflow question, sorry for that!
The answer on my own question is to get the dependency with composer --prefer-source.
https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#install
--prefer-source: There are two ways of downloading a package: source and dist. For stable versions composer will use the dist by default. The source is a version control repository. If --prefer-source is enabled, composer will install from source if there is one. This is useful if you want to make a bugfix to a project and get a local git clone of the dependency directly.