MPR has been split into MPR and MPM
It’s been quite a while. Honestly I didn’t had as much time for MooTools as I wanted. Nevertheless there has been some changes. The most important one is surely that MPR has been split into 2 separate Projects. It consists now of:
- MPR (MooTools Package Repository)
- MPM (MooTools Package Manager)
The reason for this change lies in the nature of a Package Repository. First you have the actual data (MPR), secondly you need some local Application to organize these data (MPM) and finally you need an online server (to be build) to store and order these files globally.
To reflect those changes the url got changed to: http://mpm.mooforum.net/Mpm.php
One other important reason for this change is that if you want to use MPR in an existing system like a CMS or a Blog System you most likely just want to write individual Manager for them (maybe based on MPM, but what if your CMS uses something else than PHP?) but MPR can always stay the same as it’s just the data. And by using a generic Package System you easily can distribute your Packages even between different Managers… (ok that’s a future dream but whatever who knows what the future brings.)
And what I’m currently doing is writing demos for MPR Mootools More as there are so many nice functions. I mean every time I look through the documentation or the code I find some nice new stuff. The only problem with that is by just looking at the text – it’s most of the time pretty hard to see what this code is really capable of. Without a good demo even the best code is nothing but just text to lazy people like me *hehe* I need some place to click around or see some stuff moving.
I mean a demo should show the most common usage of a function. I will try to do some blogging about my ongoing work…