ES devs and testers, this tool is for you!

lilbud

@meleu said in ES devs and testers, this tool is for you!:

Linux Mint Cinnamon

Ah, I was searching for it online for Windows, since I use Windows 10 for anything Retropie related. I absolutely hate PuTTY for numerous reasons, but it seems to be the only option at the moment.

meleu

@lilbud When I need to ssh from a Windows machine I use PuTTY. What you don't like? The small fonts?

lilbud

@meleu The garbled text on terminal menus.

But I just found a new alternative, called KiTTY, http://kitty.9bis.net/

The best feature is auto login. So when you connect to the Pi, it will automatically login to the pi account.

lilbud

@meleu When I try to download a branch using the newest version of this tool, I get a connection failed error, even though I have a stable internet connection.

backstander

@lilbud
I use KiTTY as well! It's a fork of PuTTY that's in active development.

meleu

@lilbud I'm checking the code now.

Can you say the steps you did so I can reproduce it here?

lilbud

@meleu ok

Step 1: Update tool to latest version from command line (updating from the tool itself fails immediately)
Step 2: Edit ES Branch list and load ES branches list from Retropie repo
Step 3: Attempt to build any branch from the available list, it will fail immediately and claim connection is bad.

The problem is not on my end, it says the connection failed, but I could download the repo list just fine, so I think the problem lies within the program code.

meleu

@lilbud please, try to get from this URL and try again: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/rp-testers/master/es-tests.sh

from command line:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/rp-testers/master/es-tests.sh
chmod a+x es-tests.sh

Hex

@meleu said in ES devs and testers, this tool is for you!:

New version released: epsilon

Update the script using the Update feature at the Main Menu.

Changelog

Added an option to load the repo/branch list from the open Pull Requests in RetroPie's EmulationStation repository (thanks @Hex for the insight!).

The Message ("List of...") should also add that some entries are from currently submitted PRs

meleu

@Hex sorry, I didn't get what you mean. It says "... branches list from open PRs in RetroPie repo", isn't it enough?

Hex

I need to test this out rather than post messages when i am sleepy. Sorry for the confusion.

meleu

@Hex No problem. I'm really happy with this feature, I'm constantly looking for an excuse to use it! :D

Thanks for bringing it up.

meleu

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Hex

@meleu, I would suggest manual download of jq if apt-get is not found

meleu

@Hex Do you mean that the script shouldn't provide this facility when it detects the absence of jq package?

Hex

"Do you want to install"... triggers apt-get. I use fedora which uses dnf so the command to install fails.

I would like the script to check if apt-get is present else is dnf present and then use that accordantly. If both fail you can get the executable from github (optional)

jq 1.5 is in the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories. Install using sudo apt-get install jq.

jq 1.5 is in the official Fedora repository. Install using sudo dnf install jq.

jq 1.4 is in the official openSUSE repository. Install using sudo zypper install jq.

jq 1.5 is in the official Arch repository. Install using sudo pacman -Sy jq.

meleu

@Hex Well, it's intended to be used on a Debian-based distro (just like RetroPie is). But I'll add a warning if apt-get is not found.

meleu

@Hex Done. If the script can't find apt-get, the user will see this dialog:

Zigurana

Feature request: Build and install based on a current PR number.
Rationale: lower the barrier even more: users do not need to hunt for the correct repo + branch, if they only know the GitHub PR number.

meleu

@zigurana got it. I'll try to implement it this weekend. ;)