ofGen

[dimitre]

next ideas for ofgen

[dimitre]

Cloning Addons

ability of cloning addons on recipe. specific branches / commits allowed.
cloned as local_addons or global.

yaml sketch (ideas of structure are welcome):

addonsSources:
  - name: ofxNDI
    repository: git@github.com:leadedge/ofxNDI.git
  - name: ofxMicroUI
    repository: git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUI.git
  - name: ofxTools
    repository: git@github.com:dimitre/ofxTools.git
  - name: ofxScenes
    repository: git@github.com:dimitre/ofxScenes.git
  - name: ofxNovasFronteiras
    repository: git@github.com:dimitre/ofxNovasFronteiras.git

[dimitre]

cc: @eduardfrigola @moebiussurfing

[eduardfrigola]

I think two good approaches are:

• More descriptive approach: (CHALET)
  https://www.chalet-work.space/docs/the-build-file?id=git-dependencies

• More compact: (PlatformIO)
  https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/projectconf/sections/env/options/library/lib_deps.html

[dimitre]

Yes I also like both. in ofBuild (predecessor to ofGen) I was using regexp to differentiate addons from git URLs.
https://github.com/dimitre/ofbuild/
but without commits / branches

addons:
- ofxAssimpModelLoader
- ofxKinect
- ofxGui
- ofxOpenCV
- ofxNetwork
- ofxSvg
- ofxXmlSettings
- git@github.com:danomatika/ofxMidi.git
- git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUI.git
- git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUIMidiController.git
- git@github.com:astellato/ofxSyphon.git

[dimitre]

Resume at the end

list of addons / templates / platforms at the end instead of script start. so it is easier to see what happened

[dimitre]

More info at variables section

of generated chalet.yaml
ofGen version is great but maybe time and date so we know when it was generated

[dimitre]

Cleaning template files

not important now but it would be great to be able to clean templates (remove chalet files, xcode, make, zed, vs, etc)
of the templates listed in of.yml

[eduardfrigola]

Project initialization

Using ofgen on an empty folder recreates the "emptyExample" in that folder. Similar on how projectGenerator works.
Maybe another option is to create a new command ofgen init, similar to cargo init or zig init.

With this approach, we could have an argument that specifies the template to initialise from: ofgen init nowindow / ofgen init programablerenderer / ofgen init tests.
This templates could be globaly defined by openframeworks, user defined, and addon defined.

When creating a project I usually find myself copypasting main.h, ofApp.cpp, ofApp.h from other projects.

[dimitre]

Splitting template files

Now most of ofGen templates file are splitted in separate templates. Make and Visual Studio were removed from ofGen now, as templates are not fully working. ofGen guides and help was edited to remove make template.