Hey guys,
I started writing a very basic plugin for st3, which (I think…) makes synchronizing your installed packages (and maybe settings in general later on) easier.
Say, you just installed st3 on a new machine and want to install the same packages that you installed on another machine. You could of course somehow synchronize your “Package Control.sublime-settings” by hand, but we’re all coders here, right?
Just install sublime-profile on both machines (yeah, I’ll have to do something about that name…), click Tools->Sublime Profile -> “upload profile” on your old one and copy the returned identifier. On your new machine, click Tools->Sublime Profile -> “import profile” and enter the identifier. Sublime-profile will then import the uploaded list and automatically install all packages after a restart.
I am not quite sure how useful this plugin actually is and the code does not yet have any good style (refactoring, input validation, hardening…), but I just wanted to see/learn how difficult it is to write a simple plugin (which was way easier than I expected it to be). Future features could be a backup not only of your packages, but also your settings and build-configs. Also, naming of your profiles and maybe identifiers, which one can actually remember.
If you want to, you can just checkout the plugin under
github.com/BenSower/Anonymous-Profile-Sync
and import it into your packages folder.
EDIT: changed threadname and link to Anonymous-profile-upload
I would be happy, if you could leave a comment what you think about it.
Thanks for your time and take care!
P.S.: I did not really find anything similar to this plugin, but if so, enlighten me 