PyBlueprint update

 Since I have started this project, I have had an issue where the "checks" option, to verify that everything was correctly installed, has been failing to detect virtualenvwrapper as installed, even though it is in the 'pip list' output.  

After a bunch of digging and research, I have discovered a way to do the checks that seems to be working without issue.  I have installed it on a couple of different systems, both Linux and Mac, and things seem to be functional.  That is a breath of fresh air from me, as I have hated the error happening (and subsequently being ignored by me as I knew it was installed). 

So what is next?  I plan on adding support for more languages (shell, perl, and fix the ruby implementation to be more automated).  I also want to give an option for setting up directories for code that has been checked out from a repo, so that it can be added and setup more easily than trying to remember the commands to add it.  

We shall see how those options come along and hopefully I can advance this software's language support.  If anyone has any requests, by all means, please leave a comment and I will see about adding to my list of items.  Heck, the best way would be to open an enhancement in the repo.  You can do this by creating an issue and title it as an enhancement.  

Happy Geeking!

pyblueprint-py3 Now Exists

What a crazy 3/4 of a year its been.  The last company I worked for kept going down hill for the employees with a ton of management change-over, which was in no way good.  Eventually, things had to change and I needed to get back to a happy place.  At the turn of the year I started a new job, and BOY, am I happier.  While I am still ramping up at my new place of employment, I am certainly having a lot more fun here than I did the last couple years at my old job.  Considering what is going on over there, I do not envy my old colleagues.

Enough about the craziness.  I recently sat down and took the time to convert the pyblueprint project over to using Python3.  Not only that, there is a new option for specifying a language.  It defaults to python, but it will create a directory structure for whatever language you choose.  But, python and Ruby have support for the virtualenviroment that this project sets up (as does Go and NodeJS, but I haven't yet put together docs and such for that.  That is coming though.  I migrated the project to a new name, call pyblueprint-py3.  Feel free to download it and play with it.  Hopefully it works for you.  If there are issues, please open a ticket in gitlab under the project.  Also, I am open to feature requests, should anyone have any. 

Hopefully I can get more additions on to this project in the near future. 

A new home for my projects and a project update

New Home

I know that there is always an expectation that, if you are a developer of some sort, you store your code into Github (at least that is the first one that comes to people's mind).  I have a Github acct, but, because their private repos are not free, I haven't truly used them for storing my repos.  And considering that Microsoft now owns them, I really won't be using them for my code.

Up until now, I have relied on Bitbucket (currently owned by Atlassian), as it offers unlimited free private and public repos.  We have both Bitbucket and Gitlab at my work (local installs for both).  After all of the increased fanfare for Gitlab (after the Microsoft purchase of Github) and my exposuer to it at work, I have made the switch to store my repos there as well.  Unless they change their policies, I will probably be with them quite a while.  

Project Update:

I did want to say that I have migrated my 'pyblueprint' project over to Gitlab.  Thankfully Gitlab makes the migration to them painless, and it was just a click of a couple of buttons to get the repo moved over.  The 'hard part', if you will (although not really), was fixing my git remote to point to the new repository location.  

I do want to say that I have added support to the project for creating a repository up in Gitlab.  Seeing as how I am now using it, why not.  :)  While testing out the application to ensure everything was still working afterwards, I discovered that my checks were not working.  Why?  Because the maintainers of 'pip' decided that, as of pip 10.0.0, they no longer support pip bing used programatically.  If you drop into IDLE, do an 'import pip' and then do a 'dir(pip)', you will now notice that there are no methods associated (aside from the underscore methods).  This completely broke my checks as I had relied on that useful bit.  No worries though, the checks are fixed and functioning as expected.  

Also, if anyone is using this application (don't know if anyone is) and they would like support for an alternative code repository, please feel free to open an enhancement ticket and I will see about adding support for it.  

That's it for now, happy coding!