Ore <-> SpongeAPI powered servers

[varrix]

Hey. so I’ve been thinking about making a package manager (plugin manager) for servers, although I would much rather not re-invent the wheel. Has Ore (@gratimax ?) thought about creating a plugin for Sponge that links Ore and the server?

It could get pretty featureful down the road, but to start off with it’d be nice to have bare-bones browsing, install/uninstall, management- so past Ore integration this would mean disable/enable plugins dynamically on the fly- I know the issues with this, although it’d be nice to get some more current and relevant (I know the problems involved with Bukkit, although does Sponge share the same problems? I can only assume in theory.) information on this topic, multi-ore instance support (can add “ore repos” plugin-side so we can pull from multiple ore instances- future proof. 1 centralized Ore instance is preferable, but the support is nice). I could keep going but you get the point.

EDIT #1:
tl;dr – Basically, do you still have plans to integrate an apt-get / yum package management system through a server-side SpongeAPI plugin?

[KieronWiltshire]

I believe gratimax is working on a feature that similar of npm or composer where servers would be able to pull a plugin by using it’s name, so I could imagine something similar to:

ore download permissions-ex

However I’m not entirely sure and this should be confirmed by @gratimax

[simon816]

Let me link you to this:

"apt-get" like package manager for sever admins (That uses the Ore database?)

Pugin installation should be simple. If you are familiar with linux, you know all about downloading software through “apt” or; Advanced Packaging Tool. If you don’t know what that is i suggest you google it. Here are some baseline commands/ideas to show the foundation for this system: " :name: " : Show all commands. " :name: add " (Where :name: is the name of the utility) I suggest this method for plugin management because… 1 ) Would use ONE system to download, register, view, and update …

[varrix]

As per @simon816’s reply I found:
source

@gratimax

In its current stages Ore looks more like an open-source version of BukkitDev… We plan to eventually create a package manager that consumes an Ore repository that can install plugins.

Although I would still like to know the state of this and/or whether or not it is still planned.

[Joe_Schmo2840]

ore-get install destinations, ore-get update, ore-get update && dist-upgrade

(Im kind of partial to Aptitude)

[varrix]

Just a bit…

Also, updated the post with a tl;dr so people can find my point a little quicker.