Thread collecting various ideas for Dasharo Tools Suite improvements

[macpijan]

• Use external library for version parsing and comparison. RC versions are not parsed correctly right now, for example. Examples:

  • https://github.com/fsaintjacques/semver-tool
  • https://github.com/Ariel-Rodriguez/sh-semversion-2

• Place scripts into a seperate repositories. Add pre-commit and shellcheck to enforce style guidelines and check for common errors.

• Improve UI. Suggestions:

  • https://mrchromebox.tech/#fwscript
  • https://github.com/MrChromebox/scripts

• Use actual programming language, rather than shell scripts? Researched some TUI libraries. This one is very active with lots of examples:

  • https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/tree/master/examples

• More testing on different levels

  • https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core

[macpijan]

Yesterday at night I created repository, experimenting a bit with v2 menu: https://github.com/Dasharo/dts/tree/init

[pietrushnic]

I love it. What about firmware update? I guess we can change menu items when detected firmware is already Dasharo.

• I think we should also give credits to MrChromebox for inspiration. (inspired by or sth)
• maybe we should have about the application or sth there

[pietrushnic]

Let's remember to promote this discusison and other important topics on DUG and vPub.

[macpijan]

I love it. What about firmware update? I guess we can change menu items when detected firmware is already Dasharo.

Exactly. I though about it, and set it in a way that the same option will say update once Dasharo is installed, or install when it is not.

[macpijan]

I think we should also give credits to MrChromebox for inspiration. (inspired by or sth)

Yes - of course

[pietrushnic]

Some suggestions from me were already submitted in this issue: #352

[macpijan]

It should be simple to find the source of the currently running DTS scripts. If someone wants inspect, or fix something. Observation from Matrix reported by Marek: https://matrix.to/#/!rsKWMJGPMsyPTTjXuh:matrix.org/$H7kIfXP7rFA__-L_-gZzQQErW1dFy2Fph8hDlARgP0w?via=matrix.org&via=invisiblethingslab.com&via=matrix.optoutpod.com

[marmarek]

I did find the right repository, but was looking at wrong branch (main vs develop).

[macpijan]

@TomaszAIR So far, putting the -dev version in the iPXE menu cause a lot of confusion.