red-tidegear 1.7.0

A small collection of utilities for cog creation with Red-DiscordBot.

Tidegear

A collection of utilities for use with Red-DiscordBot, made for SeaCogs.

Metadata File

The cog class provided by tidegear.Cog requires consuming cogs to have a meta.json file in your cog's bundled data directory. The meta.json file must match the schema provided in schema/meta/meta.json. An example file is located at scheme/meta/meta.example.json. Additional keys are disallowed by the schema but will not cause errors.

Developing

You'll need some prerequisites before you can start working on Tidegear.
git - uv
Additionally, I recommend a code editor of some variety. Visual Studio Code is a good, beginner-friendly option.

Installing Prerequisites

This section of the guide only applies to Windows systems. If you're on Linux, refer to the documentation of the projects listed above. I also offer a Nix Flake that contains all of the required prerequisites, if you're a Nix user.

git

You can download git from the git download page.

Alternatively, you can use winget:

winget install --id=Git.Git -e --source=winget

uv

You can install uv with the following Powershell command:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Alternatively, you can use winget:

winget install --id=astral-sh.uv -e

Getting the Source Code

Once you have git installed, you can use the git clone command to get a copy of the repository on your system.

git clone https://c.csw.im/cswimr/tidegear.git

Then, you can use uv to install the Python dependencies required for development.

uv sync --all-groups --all-extras --frozen