How do you organise your GitHub repositories with extensions?

[pftnhr]

I'm interested in where you put your zip archives on GitHub so that they are not in the same repo as your files and how you get there.

Do you use workflows or actions to organise files, folders, etc. on GitHub?

[schulle4u]

The recommended method is to use individual repositories for each extension. This is required by the self-review checklist if you are planning to publish your code officially. If your extension should stay experimental, you can simply reference the repositories auto-generated zip download in your documentation and installation settings, e.g. https://github.com/pftnhr/yellow-my-extension/archive/main.zip

Not speaking as a maintainer, I'm a little rebellious at this point and prefer one multi-extensions repository for various reasons. 😈 A workflow to create zip files indeed would be nice, for now I'm doing this manually and store them in a downloads folder inside my repo.

[pftnhr]

Is the folder where your zip's are located a private one?

[schulle4u]

Not sure if I correctly understand the question, but for my multi-repository it is a normal public folder.

[pftnhr]

I meant the zip for hello-world but Mark just explained it.

[markseuffert]

A workflow to create zip files indeed would be nice, for now I'm doing this manually

Maybe your workflow can become simpler. If you use individual repositories, then you don't need to create zip files. If you let go of obsolete extensions, keep the ones you actually care about, then you have less maintenance work. As Dieter Rams said, good design should concentrate on the essential aspects. [1] [2] Back to purity, back to simplicity.

[markseuffert]

Use one repository per extension. A ZIP file is automatically created by GitHub. Users can now download the ZIP file and copy it into their system/extensions folder. Please note that ZIP files must contain a file called extension.ini, otherwise Datenstrom Yellow doesn't know what to do with it. Learn more about making and publishing extensions.

[pftnhr]

Ah! I was not aware that GitHub creates the archives. The 'extension.ini' is of course included.

I will add the link to the zip later and then make the feature public.

[markseuffert]

[pftnhr]

I have one more (hopefully the last) question: GitHub gives me https://github.com/pftnhr/yellow-extension/archive/refs/heads/main.zip as a link. Is there any way I can get rid of the /refs/heads?

[markseuffert]

It looks correct to me. You can take any download link that works, see also helloworld example.

[pftnhr]

Ok, it's done: #894