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 Writing an extension for Joomla! is not the problem. The problem is managing the code and packaging them into a nice installer file. Even thought I use the very nice Eclipse development environment and my own local SVN server, I find it hard to make the final zip file required for distribution. A component requires files to be maintained in two locations, one for the front-end and one for the administrator backend. In addition to that, the current GeoCommunity project has a plugin (mambot) which forces me to keep track of three separate locations where files can get updated. This is becoming a nightmare and I cannot find a good enough solution to this. Thus I have decided to take some time and write a crude package manager for Joomla! which I hope will address this issue.
Meanwhile if anybody knows of a way to get around this problem and stop me from embarking on this development journey please, please do drop me a line.
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