Changelogs

Changelog:

Here is my changelogs, to keep myself and others up to date of what has changed and what I'm doing.

Feb 10, 2023

• Deprecated lsd, fully switched to exa
  • Removed lsd from being installed in shell-install.sh
• Detected if terminal is a tty, and disable using icons if it is a tty

Feb 6, 2023

• Renamed config dir to .config/
  • Updated shell-install.sh to account for new name
• Renamed bin dir to .local/bin/

Feb 1, 2023

• Removed deploy.sh.bak
• Removed everything in scripts/

Jan 24, 2023

• Renamed variables (look in init())

• Added error handling if certain criteria aren't met:

  • Will throw an error if /etc/os-release doesn't exist and will throw another error if $DOTFILES_DIR is not set.
  • init():
    • Will throw an error if /etc/os-release does not exist.
    • This is non-fatal, so init() wont return 1 as the exit code.
    • Will throw an error if $DOTFILES_DIR is not set.
      • This is a fatal error, so init() will return 1 as exit code.
      • This error will happen if rev is not a command. Setting the value of $DOTFILES_DIR relies on rev.
      • The rest of the script can continue, but will not be able to overwrite or copy zsh configs.
  • install_fonts():
    • Will throw an error if $DOTFILES_DIR is not set.
      • This is fatal, and this function will not continue.
    • Will throw error if fc-cache is not a command.
      • non-fatal, but it doesn't really matter because this command comes at the end of this funciton.
  • install_zsh():
    • Will throw an error if $DOTFILES_DIR is not set.
      • This is fatal, and this function will not continue.
      • This is because this function needs to be able to copy files from the dotfiles directory.
  • overwrite():
    • Will throw an error if $DOTFILES_DIR is not set.
      • This is fatal, and this function will not continue.
      • This is because function needs to be able to copy files from the dotfiles directory.

• install_zsh()

  • Fixed typo to make ~/.config/zsh if it does not already exists.
    • Origianally detected if it does exists, then makes the directory even though it already exists.

• Planning on completely removing deploy.sh.bak and everything in scripts/. These scripts have been deprecated, and the functionality of them have been merged into one script (shell-install.sh). The new script is basically better in every way.

  • Maybe I'll move these scripts into a deprecated/ directory? Makes it nice to see how far I've come for Shell scripting. :)

Jan 20, 2023

• Created CHANGELOG.md to track progress.
• shell-install.sh
  • Finished functions.
  • Introduced message functions:
    • msg_info() <- For showing info to user (ex: [INFO] Installing dependencies...)
    • msg_note() <- For showing notes to user (ex: [NOTE] You might need to change your shell to ZSH.)
    • msg_error() <- For printing errors to user (ex: [ERROR] Unable to detect package manager!)
    • msg_success() <- For printing successes to user (ex: [SUCCESS] Copied configs.)
  • Allowed user to just call init(). Only useful for making sure the script initalizes as expected. You can just run init() with ./shell-install init
  • Renamed the name of some Starship prompts to give credit to the creators.
  • dependencies()
    • Completely revamped package manager detection:
      • Instead of trying to find the distro name with /etc/os-release, we just pick up the name of the package managers themselves (eg: apt-get for Debian/Ubuntu based sytems, pacman for Arch based systems, so on and so on)
      • Gets rid of excess complexity and negates workarounds for distros that have different names in /etc/os-release
      • Doesn't require /etc/os-release, which might not be present on all distros (especially in containers)
    • Added NixOS/nixpkgs support
    • Only tests for Linux AND x86_64 (amd64) platforms.
      • Will throw an error if detected host is not Linux AND is not x86_64.
      • This would be a fatal error, this function would not be able to continue without knowing the system's package manager.