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Currently, URLDownloadToFile is the default of DownloadFile().
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Opinions, suggestions? For, Against?

URLDownloadToFile : https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms775123
URLDownloadToCacheFile : https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms775122

The UI will need to be reworked for this.

I did have a quick look through the issues and nothing caught my eye, but I'll be surprised if this has not been raised before..

Obviously, my ASPDM client couldn't talk to anything after this.. might make me think the repos were offline, if I hadn't just used them :)

It's not unsual for windows to turn supernanny when faced with user-built exe files... I'm assuming this is the case here? Anyway.. maybe a warning and workaround somewhere might be nice. I don't think anyone installing this is will be affected by seeing the message. Just means I've gotta go into settings sigh. My god, I hate it.

btw the install is in my $home cos I wanted to see how it did it before installing into system.. dunno if it makes any difference to windows antivirus.

Currently it is not possible to manage several StdLib folders without having to change the settings.

Ideally the path to StdLib folder to manage should be a parameter to the package manager, not a global setting. Even more ideally so, there should be a dropdown in the interface that allows you to manage:

1. the Global StdLib (AhkDir\Lib)
2. the User StdLib (My Documents\Lib) and
3. any Local StdLib folder (you would be prompted for it).

It would be possible to add previously-downloaded packages to these folders. Additionally, admin rights should not be required unless they are really needed: e.g. a temp file can be written to the folder in order to detect if they are needed.

The current URI format should include the host name from which the package is to be downloaded (this is mandatory for it to be a correctly formed URI). IMO it should read like this: aspdm://domain.name/packageid

This also brings up another issue: I think it should be possible to add other additional package repositories in the ASPDM Client. It could be done in a similar way to what Eclipse does (look at the 'Work with' DDL):

I can't connect ASPDM server to download, it's always offline...

Currently having some issues with Domain name provider. The website will be migrated soon.

The highlighting option as-is seems fine, but if/when you get a lot of packages in there, surely it would be best just to hide the filtered out items?

More info:
https://wiki.phpbb.com/Tutorial.Non-PHP_integration
https://wiki.phpbb.com/External_Login

I have AHK installed, yet it says I dont.

[Edit] So it seems that some of the functionality I mentioned is already present, so let me shift this slightly.

Ultimately, what I would love is some way that an "App" can be packaged including the dependencies into a single pkg file or whatever.

You then have a Setup.exe (still an ahk script though, but compiled) that serves as a "bootstrap" for ASPDM. Setup.exe contains ASPDM and can prepare the user's machine for ASPDM to do it's thing by doing such things as checking for horrible autohotkey.com ahk and advising user to remove it, or even containing a copy of AHK that is "known good" with the App.

The idea being, that even if the user as no net connection, they can install an ASPDM based "App" from one zip containing an EXE and a pkg.
Setup unpacks ASPDM and the dependencies, then kicks ASPDM off in a mode where it already has the Tool selected and the dependencies visible, the user just has to click "Install".

Once installed, and they have an internet connection, ASPDM can be used as normal to update etc.

If the user has a net connection while installing, and newer packages are available, give option to use packaged or downloaded.

This brings the user of a potential app neatly from "What is AHK?" land to the being user of an AHK App in one nice managed chain. As far as they are concerned, ASPDM is just the "Installer / Update manager" for the App.

Here's some info on how to use a .gitattributes file to normalize line endings on a per-repo basis. We should do this, so as to avoid things like #2.
https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings

You get a "No icon" warning, but whatever, the script does not exit and no tray icon, so you need to kill via task manager.

Probably pretty edge-case, but worth a mention.

Also, Package_Builder seems to be quite happy when compiled, but same issue. Can you not FileInstall the Res files to make it portable?

Search Method for Website needed.
and support for multiple page, say 30 packs per page?

I think that adding a filter (ignore list) is extremely important for building packages, that is; an aspdm_ignore.txt (or similar) file (it itself would be ignored). They should follow the same syntax as in .gitignore.

Shouldn't ASPDM repo be splitted ? I mean :

It would be easier to manage (even though it's not that hard...) and definitively cleaner.

I have extracted the database INI file (libdb.ini) from this forum topic (on 2015-02-03). And, I am considering to import some/most of them. I know many are for AHK v1.0 only, that will be taken into consideration as ASDPM does not AHK v1.0.

Don't know where to report else ....

Just installed ASPDM from http://aspdm.ahkscript.org/client/.
Starting the client results in error:
The ASPDM API is not responding. The server might be down. Please try again in a while (5 min).

Same happens when using the client-script directly from a fresh git-clone.....

BTW: Whats the current state of ASPDM?