XRNX plugin

[asbjornu]

I've created a basic XRNX plugin that hooks into the app_new_document and app_saved_document notifiers. It doesn't do much else useful yet, but I have had a look at adding LuaGit and it unfortunately doesn't seem trivial to just drop it into the plugin without requiring anything installed on the computer. We need to explore that in more detail.

[asbjornu]

As an alternative to the LibGit (which is written in C and therefore needs to be wrapped) based LuaGit, there are all-Lua alternatives like this and this. They seem incomplete and rought, but might just have enough functionality for what we need here. They will also have a greater chance of working cross platform, I think.

[asbjornu]

Please read this on how to do development in Renoise. The simplest way is to find the config.xml file from the preferences folder, and set the ShowScriptingDevelopmentTools property to true. From there, you can just drag and drop any folder with a name ending with .xrnx on top of Renoise, and it will think it's a plugin and install it.

Installing will actually copy the files into Renoise's Library folder, so you will need to either continue hacking inside the Library folder, set up your git repository there, or uninstall and reinstall every time you want to make a change. I haven't figured out the best workflow yet.

[Neurogami]

I don't understand this pull request. If there is to be a Lua/xrnx version it should be in a separate project.

rnsgit is a standalone command-line tool. Having a single repo that is both a ruby-based CLI tool and a seperate Lua-based Renoise tool is confusing.

[asbjornu]

I agree that having a single repository maintaining two separate languages doesn't make sense. I'm sorry, but I got the impression that you would like to move the project from Ruby and CLI to Lua and XRNX. I take it from your comment and rejection that I've misunderstood?