filester 1.1.3

Filester: generic, file based utilities and helpers

Filester: generic, file based utilities and helpers

• Overview
• Prerequisites
• Getting Started
  • (macOS Users only) upgrading GNU make
  • Creating the local environment
  • Local environment maintenance
• Help
• Running the Test Harness

Overview

Find yourself running the same file based operations over and over again in your projects? Yeah, annoying. As a result, this package is a grouping of common file operation facilities which delegate the package inclusion to pip and PyPI. One less thing to worry about ...

See Filester's documentation for more information.

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Prerequisites

• GNU make
• Python 3 Interpreter. We recommend installing pyenv
• Docker

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Getting Started

Makester is used as the Integrated Developer Platform.

(macOS Users only) upgrading GNU make

Follow these notes to get [GNU make](https://www.gnu.org/s oftware/make/manual/make.html).

Creating the local environment

Get the code and change into the top level git project directory:

git clone [e-mail]:loum/filester.git && cd filester

NOTE: Run all commands from the top-level directory of the git repository.

For first-time setup, prime the Makester project:

git submodule update --init

Initialise the environment:

make init-dev

Local environment maintenance

Keep Makester project up-to-date with:

git submodule update --remote --merge

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Help

There should be a make target to get most things done. Check the help for more information:

make help

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Running the Test Harness

We use pytest. To run the tests:

make tests

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