A tool for automatically downloading scripts from the repository
A tool, similar to apt-get, and possibly using Launchpad's API to download scripts directly from the command line. This will allow quick and easy access to the scripts in the repository where people need it most.
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I'm thinking that it might be better to simply provide a wrapper around bzr, perhaps with the ability to link scripts to a user-configurable location in their $PATH. By using bzr, there's an easy way to stay up to date without reinventing the wheel. The only difficulty is handling merge conflicts.--Scott Severance
A small script triggered by a cron job could work well here. Also, I'm currently helping on another fairly new project called "Revisioner" that monitors various VCS branches and pulls changes on demand. It currently doesn't pull changes automatically without being triggered (although adding that capability would be trivial) and it doesn't handle conflicts yet. It's another option to consider though... - Sean
