Support for new table: modx_extension_packages

[fireproofsocks]

When did this table get added? How does it interface with the existing System Setting? WTF?

[pk-informatics]

as far as i know gallery adds it during installation (http://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/gallery), searching the whole install zip doesn't show up any match for extension_packages...

[pk-informatics]

but on my current project the settings doesn't exist, the quick'n'dirty way would be to add it over the seed only if it is not existing

[pk-informatics]

and the script has to resolve [[++mypkg.core_path]], on my installation it has only worked with the full path without the system setting

[pk-informatics]

Regarding to http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/administering-your-site/settings/system-settings/extension_packages i think it will be easier to use the two functions addExtensionPackage and removeExtensionPackage to provide the same function, i don't see any benefit from using the table? and on my installations it is empty...

[fireproofsocks]

This was more of an internal note and I didn't expect a thread to be started here. The table was added by MODX at some point and it continues a frustrating trend on their part for adding undocumented (and sometimes ill-conceived) architecture. The system setting is kinda a twerky way to do it, so I can see the table being more fruitful, but I don't see it actually being used either. Argh.

I'm confused by your comments here (and they probably belong in a separate location). Repoman creates a series of system settings including one for the [[++mypkg.core_path]] -- that resolves to the custom location where you are developing your package and using version control. If the package is installed WITHOUT repoman (i.e. as a transport package), that system setting will be blank, so as long as you have followed the coding conventions (see https://github.com/craftsmancoding/repoman/wiki/Conventions) re the core_path, then MODX will know where to find your code. I feel like there must a few things fundamentally off with your work-flow if you're running into things like this...

[pk-informatics]

at the moment i am working with my first repoman package :) so it could be definitely a bug in my workflow - does it work with your packages if you try to use [{"mypkg":{"path":"[[++mypkg.core_path]]model/"}}] for the system setting?

[fireproofsocks]

No, I don't think that will work because the logic that parses those strings in the extension packages System Setting isn't actually the MODX parser. Instead, you need to create a model/migrations/install.php file and use addPackage there. Repoman will handle it from there. See moxycart as an example: https://github.com/craftsmancoding/moxycart/blob/master/model/migrations/install.php

Also Taxonomies: https://github.com/craftsmancoding/taxonomies/blob/master/model/migrations/install.php

I haven't added docs for the migrations yet...

[pk-informatics]

Aaaa okay, thank you for the info, then i could fix my code yet :)