<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-08 9:21 GMT+02:00 Akbar Gumbira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akbargumbira@gmail.com" target="_blank">akbargumbira@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yes, I have tried it. We can do it with sparse checkout, but, it requires git on the client.</div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>Wasn't that a requisite? If we are going to use git as a storage we need a git client (pure python seems to exist, could be used as a fallback in case git is not installed in the system) <a href="https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich">https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich</a> .<br><br></div><div>BTW: if you do not want to deal with git in this first task, you could used the zip endpoint, and assume that the metadata will be available at a known location in the remote http repo and just wget it.<br><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apasotti@gmail.com" target="_blank">apasotti@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><span>2016-06-08 9:10 GMT+02:00 Akbar Gumbira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akbargumbira@gmail.com" target="_blank">akbargumbira@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi Akbar,<br>The most flexible installation tool that I know is probably python pip.<br>pip can install software from a zip file, from git and from other sources too.<br>I'd suggest you to have a look to pip implementation of the install functionality, maybe there is some interesting for you.</blockquote></span><div>I just read pip code base. I think I can pick something from there for downloading the resources. But the problem I have right now is to get only the metadata file from the repository. Or are you suggesting that when users add a repository connection, it also downloads the repository directly? </div></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div></span><div>If you are working on the git repos you can probably fetch just one file without cloning the whole repo, I did not test it but here are probably some pointers: <br><br><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2466735/how-to-checkout-only-one-file-from-git-repository" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2466735/how-to-checkout-only-one-file-from-git-repository</a><br><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1125476/retrieve-a-single-file-from-a-repository" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1125476/retrieve-a-single-file-from-a-repository</a><br><br><br></div><div><div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apasotti@gmail.com" target="_blank">apasotti@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>2016-06-05 10:13 GMT+02:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net" target="_blank">rdmailings@duif.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On <a href="tel:05-06-16%2009" value="+3905061609" target="_blank">05-06-16 09</a>:02, Akbar Gumbira wrote:<br>
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> *Are you blocked on anything?*<br>
> ... In Github or Bitbucket they provide a direct link to<br>
<span>> the raw file. But I think I should look at more general approach without<br>
> manipulating the URL depending on the host. If you have some input, I<br>
> would be happy to assess it.<br>
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</span>Thanks Akbar,<br>
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I did some googling:<br>
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14405782/git-fetch-single-file-from-remote-repository-programatically" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14405782/git-fetch-single-file-from-remote-repository-programatically</a><br>
If you really want to keep it git, it looks like a shallow clone/copy is<br>
the only way? That post also talks about some undocumented feature, but<br>
I would not depend on that?<br>
<br>
Personally I would be ok when both Github and Gitlab/Gog would work (as<br>
both a closed source and open source member of the git-web-world)...<br>
<br>
Or: a script running somewhere on our server, (shallow) cloning all<br>
registred repositories periodically, and making just the metadata.txt<br>
files available via http/webserver? (maybe giving us some time to check<br>
the repo's on structure and (malicious?) content?<br>
<br>
Or else: a django app for the metadata...<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Richard<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br><br></div></div></div><div>Hi Akbar,<br><br></div><div>The most flexible installation tool that I know is probably python pip.<br><br></div><div>pip can install software from a zip file, from git and from other sources too.<br><br></div><div>I'd suggest you to have a look to pip implementation of the install functionality, maybe there is some interesting for you.<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div><span><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Alessandro Pasotti<br>w3: <a href="http://www.itopen.it" target="_blank">www.itopen.it</a></div>
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