I just released a new version of a library success...

# scripting

[louiscad]

I just released a new version of a library successfully with all the steps involved thanks to Kotlin scripting! 🎉 🎉 🎉
I'm so happy about it I want to share that script that makes the release steps semi-automatic and less error-prone: https://github.com/LouisCAD/Splitties/blob/61e9f223219f0c1c894be77c334d826413ed720c/Releasing.kts
You can see that before, it was a fully manual and error-prone 19 steps process: https://github.com/LouisCAD/Splitties/blob/61e9f223219f0c1c894be77c334d826413ed720c/RELEASING.md
Maybe it can inspire you or even suit your need straightaway.
Special thanks to @Nikky that got me on track to run OS commands from JDK APIs (to access things like git).

[Nikky]

btw i would recomemnd to change from command: String to vararg command: String, just so you can make sure there is no accidental splitting going on

[Nikky]

i moved the debug printing of which command it runs into the execution function and at most pass a boolean along to trigger which level it prints on, debug or info

[Nikky]

but this looks very cool

[louiscad]

@Nikky I added support for double quotes like git commit -am "I did it!" with the regex I copy pasted from the web for that purpose, so I can use String. I prefer this as it looks the same as usage from command line, improving readability which also impacts safety.

[Nikky]

yeah this seems fine, lets just hope you never need to have escaped quotes inside strings or so

[josephivie]

Niiiiice

[louiscad]

@Nikky In that case, I would surely test it first, followed by a TODO() call

[louiscad]

Here's the result BTW:

[louiscad]

I intentionally added colors so I can easily distinguish prompts of the script, from output of commands executed by the script.

[louiscad]

Also, the output is indeed longer, the screenshot only shows the end.

[yschimke]

There are some nice libraries that could simplify this a lot. Jansi for dealing with console colour support. Zero turnaround ztexec for process handling. And putting some of this inside Gradle as kotlin custom build steps even.

[efemoney]

This is pretty cool @louiscad I had plans for something like this (automating releases) for my app when I’m done but boy am I glad I dont have to (fully) write it from scratch myself 😂