[Plugin] [CityGen] - Core [WIP] (0.1.3a) — 19 September 2009
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@thomthom said:
Close, but still not 100% the correct thread. This is the Core thread. Not the Street Generator.
(I had a feeling making all there threads would be confusing. But how would you avoid confusion of the discussion on all the modules where in one thread?
Someone got a suggestion to how we can do this?)(I'll post the answer in the Street Generator thread sepo.
)I am affraid that forum is not the best option to collaborate on project like this... at least not in the long run. I do not want to turn you away from SketchUcation forum, which is great to discuss things, yet it does not provide (nor does any other forum) things like version control, task tracking, ... which you will definitely want. Maybe you shuould consider something like GitHub, which seems to be very popular choice for OS projects these days? It can make collaboration on project like CityGen much more manageable and easy...
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I think that is a good suggestion. I don't want to take the conversation away from here (where the creative juices freeloy flow), but at the same time, I"m afraid that realisticly, the logistics of working colaboratively on this will get tricky quickly - until Google Wave gets implemented in the near future!
But for now, perhaps a code hosting place might be necessary. What about Google Code?
I've created a test account. I'll add both Remus and Thoms as project owners so you can log in and test it out if you'd like. PM your emails addresses.Chris
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OK, I got Remus signed up, but I need a gmail account from you Thom (or youll have to create it first before you can sign in and use the project admin).
This is just a test. To see if its something we want to try to use. It only offers opensource licenses. So PM me your gmail address and I'll add you.
Chris
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Yea... I was thinking that some version management (and possible project management) would help us here. But I've never done such a collaboration project, so I wasn't sure what I was looking for.
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I see SourceForge often used, anyone had any experience with that? http://sourceforge.net/
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I download from there, but I've never used it before. I've never used any before really. So I'm open to pretty much anything, especially free
Chris
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I don't know about coding at all, and I appreciate this ruby very much. I am
"into" urban design and wonder if there is a way to select different streets for different widths- for example main streets and alleys will have different widths... ?
Thanks for this collaborative effort! -
I suggest http://www.github.com or http://www.bitbucket.org - both have distributed version control (github - git and bitbucket - mercurial) and issues management
or we can use http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted (it has support for mercurial as well)
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I know nothing about how the different distribution tools work. I've heard of subversion before, but never the onther ones. Do you prefer mercurial TBD?
Chris
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yeah, Mercurial is my main version control (all my projects are in mercurial), but I also use git from time to time.
Mercurial on Windows is smaller and faster on small sized projects that git. I also like the commands more
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ - the book about mercurial with examples
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We use Mercurial for Modelur development, too. It's great and provides GUI for windows - TortoiseHg.
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Are any of these free services?
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@troyhome said:
I don't know about coding at all, and I appreciate this ruby very much. I am
"into" urban design and wonder if there is a way to select different streets for different widths- for example main streets and alleys will have different widths... ?
Thanks for this collaborative effort!Yes. I'm working on that.
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Crazy, I had no idea there were so many options! I really appreciate you guys with experience helping point us in the right directions. I'll dig around the ones you have listed and see if I come to any conclusions (not likely
)Chris
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@thomthom said:
Are any of these free services?
If you decide to go with Mercurial, bitbucket free version offers 150Mb of space. As mentioned, github is free for open source projects and it offers 300Mb of space. You can use Hg-Git plugin to use Mercurial for version control. I never tried it, though. Maybe the Git itself is good choice (the man behind it is Linus Torvalds...)?
Or you can go free with Google code (it uses both Subversion - you can use tortoise if you want GUI frontend and Mercurial for version control), or Sourceforge or something similar...
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Is there a way to fix this error?
@unknownuser said:
@thomthom said:
Close, but still not 100% the correct thread. This is the Core thread. Not the Street Generator.
(I had a feeling making all there threads would be confusing. But how would you avoid confusion of the discussion on all the modules where in one thread? Someone got a suggestion to how we can do this?)(I'll post the answer in the Street Generator thread sepo.
)I am affraid that forum is not the best option to collaborate on project like this... at least not in the long run. I do not want to turn you away from SketchUcation forum, which is great to discuss things, yet it does not provide (nor does any other forum) things like version control, task tracking, ... which you will definitely want. Maybe you shuould consider something like GitHub, which seems to be very popular choice for OS projects these days? It can make collaboration on project like CityGen much more manageable and easy...
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I think that error was already reported and fixed. Try re-downloading and installing it. Let me know if that does not work,
Chris
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I Tried re-downloading and installing it. I got the following errors:
@chris fullmer said:
I think that error was already reported and fixed. Try re-downloading and installing it. Let me know if that does not work,
Chris
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Did you place it in the correct folder? It's going into the "Plugins\City_Gen" folder, not "Plugins".
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So now its letting you know that you've got it installed in the wrong spot.
put the city_gen.rb file in the plugins folder, then there should be a folder called City_Gen and the street file should go in there.
This is project is in the VERY easrly development phases, so its buggy and not well organized. And its only going to get worse as we keep adding to it. Just a warning.
Chris
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