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Thank you for the excellent guide! You have tremendously simplified my workflow and made it much easier to push out new releases!
My question is related to the pkgmeta file. I'm relatively new to the addon writing world, and I'm trying to understand the difference between externals, dependencies, and tools. Could you point me to a good guide on when to use each? The Curse documentation is sorely lacking beyond the bare how-to; it assumes you already know what the difference is. Besides, the automated method bypasses the Curse packager anyway.
As an example, I've been using LibStub, CallbackHandler, and LibDataBroker in my addons, and until now, I've simply placed those files in my repository and included them in my .toc file. I tried to include them as externals, but I ended up with a massive amount of files I didn't need in my addon zip file, like test cases and documentation.
I'm now moving towards the Ace3 framework, so I thought to include Ace3 and the other libraries I'm using in my externals list - but I got with something like three copies of libstub and callbackhandler, including in directories under the Ace3 hierarchy! I played around with it a bit, but eventually gave up and went back to just including the files I want in my repo.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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