.Tox limitation

For anything ChopChopChop which does not fit in the other categories
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RichardBurns
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Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:06 am

So I'm aware that most tox's in here are tools to help people in their own projects but I'm curious, what about full on systems. For example I'd like to put the following on here:

https://github.com/Richard-Burns/SimpleMixer

^^^ I'd say it meets all the standards except for the fact it's not a tox but rather a zip file containing an entire project. Are things like this to ever be supported or should I look into making a self extracting tox that does that for you?

Do we want to have entire systems on here?

idzard
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Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:11 pm

Yes - zips are/should be supported, it's actually written in the current submission guidelines to pack whole projects with assets into a single zipfile.

I'll update the file uploader to also allow zipfiles, sorry for this oversight.

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RichardBurns
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Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:27 am

It actually allows zips...so I guess it's just the terms that need updating. Uploaded SimpleMixer.

What would be cool is the ability to link to the github though. Also I'm updating this fairly recently so dunno how the moderation process for that'd work.

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Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:03 pm

Ah perfect, i wasn't sure if it did. I just updated the terms & the submission form to also mention zip files.

Github link could be useful, i had in my mind something where you can link your asset to a certain tag in your git repo. But I guess that would still mean:
1) publisher creates a new tag in git
2) publisher edits his chopchopchop asset to link to this new tag
3) chopchopchop receives the edit and reviews the new version.

So until we have that, replace step 2) with downloading the zip from github/bitbucket/gitlab (I know bitbucket automatically creates a zip download link when you make a new tag) and upload that zip to chopchopchop.

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RichardBurns
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Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:54 pm

I could directly link to the master zip on github as the download link...so host it there but description etc goes here...but I guess that can lead to things like dead links on chopchopchop.

If that were the case you'd just need to change the link and update the version string.

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