Adding local repositories

[Mark2Mark]

I wonder if that’s possible at all, I get my local repos to show up in the plugin manager, but Glyphs 3 crashes when trying to install.

First: The reason why I try that is, that the authorisation doesn’t even accept my own python plugins unless I "properly" install them. But this is not useful when developing, as I would have to re-install for every little change. My old approch with using aliases fails now. Even double clicking the plugin to install via Glyphs, which then recognises that it’s a Repo and asks if I want to use the Alias, eventually ends in the Notification that it’s from an unknown developer. Maybe you have a better idea of a python dev workflow, if so, the following might be obsolete.

Here’s my setup:

"my-dev-plugins.plist":

{
	packages = {
		plugins = (
			{
				descriptions = {
					en = "Dev Plugin 1";
				};
				path = "MyPluginInDevelopment.glyphsReporter";
				url = "/Users/…/00 - Development/Glyphsapp-Plugins/my-plugin-repo";
			},
		);
	};
}

Then this "my-dev-plugins.plist" is added to Preferences > Addons > Alternate Plugin Repos

Then it shows in the Plugin Manager, but when clicking Install, Glyphs crashes with a system crash report that contains something about assertion failure in the git_clone command. This comes up only if I add a "/.git" to the url (just trying things):

Application Specific Information:
Assertion failed: (out && url && local_path), function git_clone, file /Users/georg/Code/objective-git/External/libgit2/src/clone.c, line 398.

I didn’t send the crash report yet, to not clutter your reports. I assume I already made a couple of mistakes in this setup.

If that approach is valid and useful for others (and we can fix my mistakes here) I am happy to draft a guide for others to use, as I think it’s very neat if that’s working.

[schriftgestalt]

Do you have installed a local git server? I think the url needs to point to a server, not just a repo. So you can keep the packages.plist local, but the repo needs to be on a server.

[florianpircher]

My old approch with using aliases fails now. Even double clicking the plugin to install via Glyphs, which then recognises that it’s a Repo and asks if I want to use the Alias, eventually ends in the Notification that it’s from an unknown developer.

This approach still works for me, but I don’t have an M1 equipped Mac, so maybe that is the difference.

[florianpircher]

I actually managed to install a local repository. The url field needs to start with file://, for example:

{
	packages = {
		plugins = (
			{
				descriptions = {
					en = "Dev Plugin 1";
				};
				path = "MyPluginInDevelopment.glyphsReporter";
				url = "file:///Users/…/00 - Development/Glyphsapp-Plugins/my-plugin-repo";
			},
		);
	};
}

But that also just clones my local plugin files into Glyphs Repositories directory, so I am not sure if that improves anything.