gearchy feature custom goggle dependencies

[devidw]

In the goggle editor, the user should be able to define a list of gist URLs that are treated as dependencies (extra tab in the editor?)

This way, goggles could inherit/extend rules from other goggles

The defined dependencies have to be saved into the goggle, most likely some meta comment

And once the gist gets written to GitHub, the dependencies have to be pulled and their instructions (all metadata and comments should be removed) need to be placed inside the goggle

Placement inside the goggle should wrap inside a pair of comments that defines start and end of dependencies

Vendor instructions need to be ignored or striped before the goggle is loaded into the editor

For example, something like:

! name: …

! depends_on: https://…
! depends_on: https://…

! dependency injection start
…
! dependency injection end

…

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For implementation of such functionality, perhaps there should be something like a plugin system to be able to extend goggledy to allow custom metadata lines and custom start/end blocks inside goggles

Maybe goggledy should handle an internal list of possible line syntaxes and plugins could register custom syntax definitions like for example a custom metadata line which would detec any ! …: … line

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Dependency functionality should not be bundled into goggledy directly, rather as an extra package

The package could ship functionality to:

• clear a goggle instance from dependency specific comment and instructions
• get and set the dependency URLs and dependency instructions from a goggle instance
• fetch and process the dependency URLs and get the instructions cleaned from meta, comments, etc.

These functions would be invoked inside gearchy when the goggle is parsed and stringified

Dependency URLs and content should be managed inside an extra store or the goggle store

Gearchy should also allow the user to trigger an update on the dependencies, this would fetch all dependency sources and place them inside the goggle

Normally only those already in the goggle would be saved to the updated goggle again without updating