Consider adding a .gitattributes file

[Gramps]

Hey there! You may want to consider adding a .gitattributes file so that users download just your asset instead of the whole repo. It can be as simple as:

# Normalize line endings for all files that Git considers text files.
* text=auto eol=lf

# Only include the addons folder when downloading from the Asset Library.
/**        export-ignore
/addons    !export-ignore
/addons/** !export-ignore

[Lecrapouille]

Hi @Gramps I didn't see you comment ! Ok I'll add it. Tank you

[Lecrapouille]

@Gramps by the way I've to include my src folder to compile cpp source. Do you think I have to move it inside add-ons ?

[Gramps]

@Lecrapouille Personally, I would not include it in the addon folder as that is usually for end-users; source code is better just sitting in the repo for people who will compile it but most users will not.

[Lecrapouille]

Yeah but I did not add the shared lib in the add-ons folder. So people will not be able to have something working or compilable

[Lecrapouille]

Maybe my folders shall be addons/prologot/ and prologot/src/ and move doc/ demos/ and construct, Makefile, tests inside prologot/ and create the gitattribut to remove others files. like this people can still compile and have no conflict with other projects.

[Gramps]

Ah, I see your .gdextension file is still in the repo root. And only has a Linux version with no Windows or Mac versions.

I haven't seen an addon that ships any source for compiling before; like I mentioned, it is usually left on the repo for people who do compile. Typically addons are finished products. However, it is up to you how you want to ship or structure things; I just give suggestions.

[Lecrapouille]

@Gramps I will do it differently! I will not add git attribute since my current repo holds code source. I'm updating the CI to create an artifacts stored on GitHub with all compiled libraries, gdextension and I will update the Godot asset lib to refer the zip file.

[Gramps]

Sounds legit. I usually have two separate branches: one for the GDExtensions source code then a different one for the actual packaged version and link the commit hash from that. Many valid methods!

[Lecrapouille]

I finally succeeded to make the CI: https://github.com/Lecrapouille/Prologot/releases/tag/v0.2.0 but on Linux it crashes because I have to copy all Prolog files such as boot.prc library/ folder