OFBuild, a tool to create projects.

[dimitre]

I'm now building a tool, for personal usage at first, which can reproduce the project generation from a recipe.
I've thought about recipe formats and choose YAML instead of JSON, because it is easier to comment / uncomment blocks, there is no worring about trailing commas.

The idea is having a recipe in some project folder, that has all important information to rebuild a project if needed.
Similar to the projectGenerator front end it will invoke the projectGenerator commandLine to build everything, but getting information from a YML recipe.

Here is a sketch of the YAML file
of.yml

name: AeroFractal

ofpath: /Volumes/tool/ofw

addons:
- ofxAssimpModelLoader
- git@github.com:danomatika/ofxMidi.git
- git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUI.git
- git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUIMidiController.git
- git@github.com:astellato/ofxSyphon.git

platforms: ["macos", "ios"]

templates: ["vscode"]

Ideas are welcome

[dimitre]

Tool is already working with a projectGenerator branch.
I'm now working with the ability of checking out a specific branch, tag or commit.
wondering of how to call it, now in this example is "specific_addons" but I don't like very mych. ideas of a better name?

addons:
- ofxAssimpModelLoader
- ofxKinect
- ofxGui
- ofxOpenCV
- ofxNetwork
- ofxSvg
- ofxXmlSettings
- git@github.com:danomatika/ofxMidi.git
- git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUI.git
- git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUIMidiController.git

specific_addons:
- git: git@github.com:astellato/ofxSyphon.git
  branch: of_head
- git: git@github.com:dimitre/ofxTools.git
  branch: experimental

cc @2bbb

[ofTheo]

I like this idea - I would maybe just let any url use the branch tag?
Then you don't need a different section

eg:

addons:
- ofxAssimpModelLoader
- ofxKinect
- ofxGui
- ofxOpenCV
- ofxNetwork
- ofxSvg
- ofxXmlSettings
- git: git@github.com:danomatika/ofxMidi.git
- git: git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUI.git
- git: git@github.com:dimitre/ofxMicroUIMidiController.git
  branch: experimental

[dimitre]

Yeah that would be ace. I'm still wondering if list can be mixed with map. will study yaml_cpp a little more

[dimitre]

Yes some places like platformio and github actions you can pass a tag, branch or commit after @ symbol
like git@github.com:danomatika/ofxMidi.git@v2

[dimitre]

First version is ready and working with XCode
install instructions here
https://github.com/dimitre/ofbuild

I'm trying to make it compile via github actions (ok) and make an automatic release (not ok yet)

[dimitre]

I'll be closing this one, as all ofbuild functionalities are now in ofGen (recipe to make reproduceable projects)