Looks nice! This can actually be a more convenient way to do quick, basic searches in some cases than ticalc.org's own search system.

Works fine on my Linux system. You might want to change the first line from “#!usr\bin\env python” to “#!/usr/bin/env python” and set the line ending format of the script to Unix so that it's possible to call it directly without prefixing the command line with “python”.

A couple of other ideas:

* Case-insensitive searching (currently, for instance, searching for “quad” gives different results from “Quad”, so you have to try both to make sure you find everything)

* When downloading, handle duplicate filenames (from files in different directories on the ticalc.org server) by renaming them rather than having them overwrite each other. Example: If you get “Frogger”, you'll end up with several missing files because they're named “frogger.zip” and only one “frogger.zip” remains after the download process)

Oops. I always seem to end up with the slashes the wrong way around, thanks for pointing that out.

Case insensitive searching is a good idea too.

I'll also set up a system of some sort to handle duplicate filenames.

I'm thinking of adding a switch for searching by directory as well, something like "-d ti89\" or "-d "ti83plus\basic\math\".

Thanks for the feedback!

I've fixed the #!/usr/bin/env python and added case insensitive searching. I think it'll just be best to distribute one copy for Windows and one for Unix/Linux, with the different line endings set.

I still need to get multiple files with the same name working, and a switch for searching in a specified directory. Once that is done, I'll upload a new version.

I also integrated it with an IRC bot... sort of. The bot can do "!calcpkg count text" and say in the channel the number of results. It can do "!calcpkg list text", but since saying it all in the channel would be bad, it pastebins the results and just gives back a link to that Pastebin. And "!calcpkg update" can be ran as well.

The Twisted framework for Python doesn't support sending files to people with dcc, so I can't make it download the files and send them to you.

Attached is the current version of the package manager (adapted slightly for IRC) and the bot. (The bot imports the package manager).

It uses the Twisted framework for Python 2.x- which requires both Twisted and Zope.Interface to run.

It is set to join #cemetech and #omnimaga by default on whatever IRC network you specify when you run it- you specify the network by:

"python calcpkgbot.py #otherchan irc.efnet.net"

#otherchan could be anything- making it #cemetech or #omnimaga would make it only join the two default channels.

There are five commands in there- in addition to !calcpkg list, !calcpkg count, !calcpkg update, and !calcpkg help, I added a !nick to change the bot's nickname remotely (the default is set to "Hex", a Terry Pratchett reference and most likely a nick already in use somewhere).

The update command can only be ran by operators because it's a time/resource intensive operation.

If you send commands to a private message, it will return them to you via private message- so if it's spamming up the channel you can make people take it to privmsg (or just silence it). DJ suggested flood control of some sort- that is the closest I came to doing it now.

Getting ready to release an update.

In addition to case insensitive searching and the #! fix, I've:

1. Changed the way downloaded files are named- they contain the path (so "83plus-asm-games-generate.zip" rather than just "generate.zip") to fix the issue with multiple files containing the same name.

2. Added command-line opts for searching. The opts are:

-c [name]: --category=[name]: some category to search in. This can be high level like "83plus" or "win", and it can also be "games" or "math" or "basic" or "os" or whatever.
-g: --game: Searches for games only ("-c games")
-m: --math: Searches for math and science only ("-c math" and "-c games")

These switches only work with the list and get commands. I also added a switch for update, -s or --silent, which keeps output to a minimum. All switches can be viewed with "calcpkg.py -h".

I'm also just going to have a separate Unix and Windows version on ticalc.org (and Cemetech) with the different line endings.

I just need to rewrite the readme, boot into Windows and test the Windows version, and then I'll release.

ScoutDavid: By "not run using cmd", you mean "not be a command line program and have a GUI", I assume. (Please clarify if I'm mistaken).

Honestly, I prefer it to be a command line program. (Wow! Three months ago I hated command line programs. Too much Linux...)

Personally, I feel like this is best suited for the command line. In Linux, I think package managers in the terminal are much simpler to use than the GUIs. That's just a personal preference though.

I could make a GUI for it in Python, yes- but I would much rather devote time to perfecting the existing tool. After that... I could try to hack out a Tkinter GUI (I'd rather not, but Tkinter is built-in to Python as opposed to PyGTK/wxPython/PyQT).

Whatever I did, I would make it a frontend that wouldn't remove any functionality from the command line tool- much like the IRC bot.

For the bug: did you search for "Formulum" or "formulum"? At the present it doesn't do case-insensitive searching. When I did "Formulum" I got 2 results.

ScoutDavid: By "not run using cmd", you mean "not be a command line program and have a GUI", I assume. (Please clarify if I'm mistaken).

Not-GUI, that would make it slow.
Not cmd, since we need to cd the location.
Python but non-GUI!

If you make it Python but non-GUI I can make a GUI out of it, I'm one awesome (sorry for this) python GUI programmer actually.

Hum... I got none and updated, gonna try again

Also, the new version has been uploaded to ticalc.org here. And there's a version with the Unix line endings here. (Copies are also available in Cemetech's archives- and I'll replace the one in the first post in a second).