I understand how to create a Magento Connect package from a store admin (System–>Magento Connect–>Package Extensions).
Is there a script somewhere that accomplishes this? I would like to save the repeated typing of identical information into the fields, and just make the process more automated (for releasing multiple versions of the same plugin)
(self link, but it’s the only like it I know of)
There’s nothing officially supported — that said I’ve created a script which can take a standard, flat, unix tar archive and create a Magento Connect package from it. See the build examples on the MagentoTarToConnect GitHub.
The script is magento-tar-to-connect.php, and you feed it a configuration file like example-config.php. The configuration file has the minimum information needed to create a Magento Connect package, and should point at the unix tar archive (which you’ll need to create separately).
If there’s missing functionality I’m more than open to pull requests.