packaging greasemonkey scripts

[Mike Rooney]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Nick Ellery<nick.ellery at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> The scripts haven't had to be updated very often recently - once every
>> couple of months.  However, to prevent having to perform lots of Stable
>> Release Updates we are learning towards only including them in a PPA.
>
> I agree that usage of a PPA would make more sense.  For the most part,
> the only people that use these scripts are people who understand PPAs,
> so there shouldn't be much difficulty with installation.

I agree as well, a PPA seems like a perfect approach for something like this.

> A unified
> script would be nice, however I would still like to see some way in
> which you can install a specific script on its own, be it through a
> package for each script, or one for all.
>

Well, of course you can always do this manually by installing them
from the launchpad code page by just clicking on them. Though
bettergmail2 has a UI that allows you to check which scripts you want;
maybe it wouldn't be too hard to have a basic UI with a checkbox for
each script that allows you to configure them. One advantage this
would have is we could put a few more less commonly used ones in and
disable them by default, but this way they are easily enabled.

-- 
Michael Rooney
mrooney at gmail.com