BxDevTools - Tools and utilities for package development and management

The bxdevtools package provides a collection of tools and utilities to assist BxDevCpp's software developers and users.

Some semi-automated procedures are available to manage Git based software development through a specific branch model.

• Package management:
  • create a new software package with Git support
  • setup GitHub based origin for a package
• Git branch management:
  • create a new feature branch (from the develop branch)
  • terminate a feature branch (merge back to the develop branch)
  • create a new release branch (from the develop branch)
  • terminate a release branch (merge back to the master and develop branches)
  • create a new hotfix branch (from develop or release branch)
  • terminate a hotfix branch
• Tag management

Download

1. From the directory of your choice (here ${HOME}):

   $ mkdir -p ${HOME}/BxDevTools
   $ cd ${HOME}/BxDevTools
   $ git clone https://github.com/BxCppDev/bxdevtools.git bxdevtools

Installation

WIP

1. From the BxDevTools source directory:

   $ cd ${HOME}/BxDevTools/bxdevtools
   $ mkdir _build.d   # Create a build directory
   $ cd _build.d      # Cd in it

2. Then configure:

   $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${HOME}/BxDevTools/bxdevtools/install-devel" ..

3. Build and install:

   $ make
   $ make install

Setup

You must define two environment variables in order to activate BxDevTools' utilities:

$ export PATH=_install.d/bin:${PATH}
$ export PYTHONPATH=$(bxdevtools-config --libdir):${PYTHONPATH}

In your .bashrc script, it is convenient to add:

function do_bxdevtools_devel_setup()
{
  if [ -n "${BXDEVTOOLS_INSTALL_PREFIX}" ]; then
    echo >&2 "[warning] do_bxdevtools_devel_setup: BxDevTools/devel is alreadry setup!"
    return 1
  fi
  export BXDEVTOOLS_INSTALL_PREFIX="/bxdevtools/installation/prefix"
  export PATH="${BXDEVTOOLS_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin:${PATH}"
  export PYTHONPATH="$(bxdevtools-config --libdir):${PYTHONPATH}"
  echo >&2 "[info] do_bxdevtools_devel_setup: BxDevTools/devel is now setup!"
  return 0
}
alias bxdevtools_devel_setup='do_bxdevtools_devel_setup'

Invoking the following command will activate BxDevTools' utilities:

$ bxdevtools_devel_setup