I was thinking the other day. Why not make a WoW specific nuget feed?
For those who don't know, nuget is a visual studio addon (altho there are external programs too) that acts as a package manager. These packages are usually external libraries but can be anything (pure content, or a script that changes your project)
The current official feed has thousands of packages for a variety of purposes.
I did some research and it is quite easy to set it up. It is also language independent (except for automatically adding references i think) so it could be used for both lua libraries and .NET code (and others, xml for example)
So basically, when the plan goes trough and we have the wow feed. You can start developing your addon and when you know you need a specific library you execute the command "nuget Install-Package <name>" and its in your project (you can also use a GUI if you use it inside visual studio)
It also has a complete scripting backend so you can actually add the library call as soon as you install it.
Another advantage is. If you decided you don't need the library after all you just use the command "nuget Uninstall-Package <name>" (or again, GUI) and it will completely rollback the previous installation of that package.
A third advantage is, it is easy to update: nuget Update-Package <name> (i believe nuget Update-Package witouth parameter updates all the packages, also GUI blabla
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So we have package management + a central repository with easy access + easy updating.
Now after this short explanation (google nuget, probably does a better job of explaining itself then me
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I was wondering how much interest there is in this? If enough interest is shown i might look off setting the feed up. If not, then there won't be much benefit for anyone if i continue on this
So toughts? Votes?
Shoot