An OTX Package manager?

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An OTX Package manager?

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I think it would be a great idea to have a package-manager-like thing similar to what Linux package managers do, but maybe without all of that compiling source and dependency-problems nonsense! If you've used Atom, the popular source code text editor, it has a package manager (which BTW actually has an LCS/LCB/revIgniter add-on!) of the sort I'm thinking about.

Packages would be complete and ready to use, these could be IDE plugins, LCS libraries, pre-compiled LCB widgets and libraries, useful scripts or tool stacks, demos, tutorials, educational or entertainment stacks, etc. with categories, and info blurbs for browsing.

The sources of these packages could be in multiple locations (repos URLs), with one main OTX repo (probably on GitHub), but allowing for the user to add additional custom repo URLs, while warning about possible security issues they're adding some unknown / untrusted sources. Users of things like KODI (https://kodi.tv/addons/matrix/) will know exactly what I'm talking about!

The IDE has already has some of this capability integrated into it but it's currently scattered in multiple locations:

Extension Manager, which multiple tabs were added at some point, but only the first two tabs, widgets and libraries have ever actually been functional!
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Re: An OTX Package manager?

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https://github.com/PaulMcClernan/KodiStyleRepoForOXT
This is a template for a Kodi add-on package repo that uses GitHub
which is the sort of thing I had in mind.
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