Scripting as a team

[Kaperstone]

Originally Posted by ******

"started by", not "made by".

I guess you meant the opposite.

Originally Posted by ******

If you try do everything yourself, then after a year of development you will still be worrying about how to parse files and stream objects, not doing anything useful at all.

Worrying is a way to improve something, imo.
Its better than not to care.

I'd say its a two side story, there are people who worry and stuck at the same thing to perfectionize it, and some would come up with something simple and move on, maybe return to the same spot if he comes up with something better.


Personally, I do try to do everything by myself, I do believe team work yields the best results, but dislike working in a team with other people.

[admantis]

Use a repository system like git or Subversion (I prefer Subversion as it's more conventional, much easier to use, and flexible).

[Kaperstone]

Originally Posted by ******

No

Oh, I thought you meant to fix me.

Anyway, my point was about achieving as a single developer, but I understand what you mean.

[NealPeteros]

Is there like a live version of multi-user scripting? Like ****** Docs when being shared. If you haven't tried ****** docs, it's like live editing of a single file by multiple users granted access by the original creator of the file. If there was, that would be so awesome.

[Infinity]

Originally Posted by NealPeteros

Is there like a live version of multi-user scripting? Like ****** Docs when being shared. If you haven't tried ****** docs, it's like live editing of a single file by multiple users granted access by the original creator of the file. If there was, that would be so awesome.

I would never recommend this for coding. Think about it. Say, you and I are working together working on a script. You want to test what you've just written (a good programmer tests often!), but wait, the code does not compile because I was in the middle of a line. Or, nothing works because you're including my code which wasn't done yet.

For coding, you really want solutions such as git. Once you know your feature is done and tested, you push it to the other developers.

[svorpyx]

Originally Posted by CrystalMethod

I'd say either GitHub or DropBox. Only worry is if two people start working on the script at the same time out of dropbox, and when they both save, one person's work is lost. If you guys make separate copies of the script to work on sections, then paste it all together at the end, perhaps that'd work? I'm not totally sure, but that's my best guest. I've only ever scripted solo, never on a team.

NEVER use regular filesharing for sharing code, it's just a death wish. Always use VCS like Git. Git really is today's standard with almost every new project that uses VCS choosing for git. You can get free public repo's on GitHub, or you can get free private repo's on BitBucket or GitLab. There are many git clients available to ease up the process.

[TakeiT]

I've created a folder for a developer and shared that folder in Dropbox, then allowed them to create a filterscript where they can put all their code into. Wouldn't recommend it sharing one script, though I've done it with a modular gamemode. You just have to make sure you aren't editing the same file at the same time.

Then installed dropbox on linux server and created a command in game to reload each dev's filterscript, mainly for testing without restarting the entire server/having to upload anything.

[adri1]

Originally Posted by Dignity

Use Bitbucket and SourceTree. Essentially the same as Github but free. I also like to keep my dev files on ****** Drive so it's shared with my other developer.

If you are student you can get for free Student Developer Pack that includes Github developer plan (unlimited private repositories)
https://education.github.com/pack

[Sasino97]

If you have problems with Git, I suggest you to try Mercurial (hg). It is very similar to Git but a bit less complicated. I'm always using Mercurial, and TortoiseHg as a GUI.
The best repository website is https://bitbucket.org/
It is completely free for small teams, even private/hidden projects.

[Jeroen52]

Originally Posted by Sasino97

If you have problems with Git, I suggest you to try Mercurial (hg). It is very similar to Git but a bit less complicated. I'm always using Mercurial, and TortoiseHg as a GUI.
The best repository website is https://bitbucket.org/
It is completely free for small teams, even private/hidden projects.

I personally use the following:

Version control: Git for Windows
GUI: GitExtensions
Merging/diff: KDiff3
SSH: PuTTY
Code hosting: Self-hosted GitLab (warning: RAM hogger)
Continuous integration: Self-hosted GitLab-runner (automatically deploys and updates the server)