Consider making the Unity package UPM compatible

[SimonDarksideJ]

The modern way of deploying packages in Unity is via UPM (Unity Package Manager).

Consider updating the Unity package repository to match the UPM project layout, rather than making a .UnityPackage export, which is safer and provides versioning (plus allows publishing to OpenUPM)

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/cus-layout.html

A good example is the RealityCollective packages which have automation to manage building/testing and tagging for OpenUPM
https://github.com/realitycollective/com.realitycollective.service-framework

[philip-lamb]

Sounds good Simon. Looking into it.

[ryohey]

Just for your reference, if you're not already aware, I think you are trying a big directory structure change in the upm branch, but you can specify the path in manifest.json as follows, so you may just need to add the Plugins binary to your current master branch. I hope this helps.

"org.artoolkitx.artoolkitx-unity": "https://github.com/artoolkitx/arunityx.git?path=Packages/artoolkitX-Unity"

[philip-lamb]

@ryohey Thanks, and yes was aware of it but decided to follow the subtree-split UPM strategy, since this is slightly cleaner for the users who are not interested in developing the toolkit itself.

Thanks for taking an interest in the project, good to see our community growing!

[philip-lamb]

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