Community bonding

So for this part of the project, called “Community bonding”, I have to prepare the things for my project. What is a better way of doing this besides talking to my mentor? Probably none. Today I had my first project-only related online conversation on Skype, and it was amazing. I got to talk to this man that is going to help me finish my project throughout this summer.

What do I have to do?

I have to get my stuff done in this pre-coding part. And what does it involve? Well, as written in my proposal, I will have to settle two things:

• how will I make the installation as great as possible, so basically the user experience must be amazing
• decide how to make the package managing as convenient as it can be

How will I do it?

This is where I go into what was being discussed today. The answer for the first one is quite debatable. We both had many ideas, but after brainstorming a little and deciding better, we ended up with an amazing solution. Old installation wizard experience.

The installation script will have at first 3 options:

1. Install all the bears
2. Install the recommended bears (which will probably include the general ones and a few for, let’s say, Python, C maybe? this is an easy aspect and not so important)
3. Custom installation

So basically the custom installation will throw a numbered list with all the bears in the terminal interface, and the user will have to input the numbers of bears that he wants. This will probably be the one that will take the most time, but I still think it’s cool, giving the user the liberty of having anything he wants.

 

For the second question, there’s no optimal solution reached  yet. But we still have a lot of time, right? 13 more days. However, we didn’t want to call it a day without having at least a solution. And there it is:

Package managing will be done by simply updating the requirements for each bear upon the time the requirements are updated. Sure, there may be some bears in worst case scenario that use many. But that is rare. Well, this is a solution after all, and whether it may not be so efficient, there’s still time, and it works, which may be enough for what we need for this project.