bills-kitchen Configurable tools

Pulls out the tool configuration in a YAML file under config.

Also makes all constant values (CACHE_DIR, ZIP_EXE etc.) overridable through environment variables (which you can use on the rake command line)

Updates all software to the latest versions.

Oct 20 '16 11:10 damphyr

Not ready yet, PR opened to be able to clarify a few things

Oct 20 '16 11:10 damphyr

Q1: What are you doing with that 'includes' parameter?

Oct 20 '16 11:10 damphyr

That Appveyor build is going to block forever because it's asking for the git name and email

Oct 20 '16 12:10 damphyr

Torben I need your input here, there's a few things that do not work due to environment scripts:

Asking for the name and email for git in set-env blocks all builds.
Atom plugin installation fails.

On the other hand I've restructured most of the Rakefile so that we can use it as a basis for all devpacks and handle exceptions (like the double unpack for Chef).

Basically I broke the kitchen and took home the oven to bake my own cookies.

Oct 20 '16 14:10 damphyr

@damphyr while I believe we could get this to work / pass the appveyor build again, I'm not sure what to do with it.

Instead of doing something half-assed, I'd rather focus on making https://github.com/Zuehlke/z-devpack reusable / modular enough (see https://github.com/Zuehlke/z-devpack/issues/1) so it can be the new basis for bills-kitchen.

What do you think?

Oct 25 '16 22:10 tknerr

What I think is : https://github.com/Zuehlke/z-devpack :)

Oct 26 '16 12:10 damphyr

Do we scrap this or should I bring it up to date?

May 14 '19 08:05 damphyr

I should probably add some large banner stating that this is unmaintained (ever since I switched to macOS about 1.5 years ago...)

I'm currently maintaining https://github.com/tknerr/linus-kitchen/ instead, which is a Linux Developer VM variant with the same intent / goal as Bill's Kitchen.

So yes, I'm in favor of ditching this, unless someone wants to continue to maintain it

May 14 '19 08:05 tknerr