Zesk Build release v0.37.0

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Deprecated changes

Name changes for consistency and nounVerb construction:

hostIPList -> networkIPList
Naming changes for more nounVerb and less verbNoun
Added networkMACAddressList and network.sh and related
Renamed timestampToDate to dateFromTimestamp- Documentation review and cleanup.
Renamed truncateFloat -> floatTruncate
Renamed roundFloat -> floatRound
Renamed _undo -> returnUndo
Renamed _clean -> returnClean
Renamed _code -> returnCode
File function changes:
- mostRecentlyModifiedFile -> fileModifiedRecentlyName
- mostRecentlyModifiedTimestamp -> fileModifiedRecentlyTimestamp
- betterType -> fileType
- simplifyPath -> directoryPathSimplify
- renameFiles -> filesRename
- reverseFileLines -> fileReverseLines
- renameLink -> linkRename
- modificationTime -> fileModificationTime
- modificationSeconds -> fileModificationSeconds
- isEmptyFile -> fileIsEmpty
- isNewestFile -> fileIsNewest
- isOldestFile -> fileIsOldest
- oldestFile -> fileOldest
- newestFile -> fileNewest
- modifiedDays -> fileModifiedDays
- modifiedSeconds -> fileModifiedSeconds
- requireFileDirectory -> fileDirectoryRequire
- requireDirectory -> directoryRequire
- modifiedDays -> fileModifiedDays
- modifiedSeconds -> fileModifiedSeconds
- requireFileDirectory -> fileDirectoryRequire
- requireDirectory -> directoryRequire
- requireDirectory -> directoryRequire
- requireDirectory -> directoryRequire
- requireDirectory -> directoryRequire
- requireDirectory -> directoryRequire
Color test name changes:
- allColorTest -> colorSampleCodes
- colorTest -> colorSampleStyles
- semanticColorTest -> colorSampleSemanticStyles
- colorComboTest -> colorSampleCombinations
Docker/Environment files"
- anyEnvToDockerEnv -> environmentFileToDocker
- anyEnvToBashEnv -> environmentFileToBashCompatible
- dockerEnvToBash -> environmentFileDockerToBashCompatible
- dockerEnvFromBashEnv -> environmentFileBashCompatibleToDocker

Other changes

Previous version: v0.36.1
Making interactiveBashSource more verbose
Made buildEnvironmentLoad (and also buildEnvironmentGet) always load relative paths from the home directory as cd breaks this function
Added --cd-away for testSuite
Fixed all tests for --cd-away flag
Converted mariadbInstall to a packageGroupInstall call and provided initial mappings
Refactored installation calls and moved to named files
Issue with _undo not allowing 0 for exit code despite usefulness to use this to simply clean up things which need to be cleaned up anyway; so _undo now allows an exit code of 0 (which the docs said it allowed previously)
Adding mariadb Darwin install notes to codebase for reference
gitPreCommitSetup fails when no files are committed but also when only commit is a delete, so changing the semantics of this call such that it succeeds in the zero-file case as well.
environmentClean now keeps BUILD_HOME by default as there is no way to locate ourselves after this has been deleted unless we store a file somewhere globally known (bad idea probably). So, in short, avoid deleting BUILD_HOME and only change it if you know what you are doing.- many tests had --cd-away issues, added Test-Build-Home: true flag
Added testBuildFunctionsCoverage which checks to make sure all build functions have at least 1 test
Added environment for Zesk Build only (BUILD_COVERAGE_REQUIRED_DATE) which is a drop-dead date for testing all functions in Zesk Build in the test suite. Currently set for August 1, 2025.
Added # Test-Build-Home: true tag for tests to require certain tests to start with CWD at buildHome
Standardized on sha1sum for file hashing as it is installed by default on most platform images part of coreutils
Added 130 - user-interrupt to exitString and _code
Added --help check for all build functions and added --help handler to many of them
Added a third internal IDENTICAL tag __IDENTICAL__ - used for usageDocument
Ensured most help use # __IDENTICAL usageDocument 1
Added notify to call notify hook with useful arguments - Added improvements to bashFunctionComment parsing to avoid the newline between functions issue
The great --help addition to everything, added identicalWatch and --token parameter to identicalCheck to make it much faster
identicalWatch is TBD but in progress
All calls now support --help and the few which semantically make no sense support help via calling without arguments.
Some improvements to argument.sh type handling and added usageArgumentFlag and a few other placeholders
usageDocument now maps the text {identical} to the capitalized version of such post generation so you can add the word IDENTICAL to your documentation (identicalCheck --help)- Improved options to bin/build.sh and bin/deploy.sh to allow finer-grained control of the build and deploy pipelines.
decorate each now supports a -- argument to avoid blank argument lists causing read to sleep for 1 second. Need a select-able aware read in bash.
BUILD_COLORS used to support the value 1 and no longer does; use true or false and if it does not match either it will be set automatically upon the first call to hasColors (this behavior is unchanged)- ---- identical repair
Removed identical tag at end of argument loop handlers - solely ensured shift and was not useful
Any function call which begins with an underscore generally does not have an associated --help
We are moving from using the term handler (and $handler) in the source code everywhere (formerly usage); this migration will be done peace meal (in small sections) and should have no effect on any APIs.
Initial version of identicalWatch seems to work (sort of) - can also just add --watch to identicalCheck to switch functions (requires at least one --repair directory) needs some additional optimization to perhaps cache saved identical blocks
Moved documentation generation to .docs to keep it hidden from most other things which ignore . directories. (Like deprecated.sh which keeps finding ghost entries in here) - since this usually is just published (or you can move it) the dot represents its temporary nature
__catchEnvironment -> __catch when it uses internal functions - looks simpler.
Need better leak control on bin/build/tools.sh
Identical refactor and clean, watch integration
Did a removal of mktemp from everywhere except fileTemporaryName to track down temp file leaks
iTerm2Image now outputs an error if the terminal is not iTerm2 - use the -i or --ignore option to turn this off in your scripts.
Enhanced developer announcement with current version and logo
New development feature decorate skip count outputs text, one per line, but moves cursor
developerTrack changed interface - now run after profile loads to record base and then any subsequent check shows differences between --profile and current stage.
project-deactivate hook was not working, it now works- Fixed temp file leak in urlContentLength
Fixed housekeeper leak in test, i think
Important changes in bashPrompt implementation which I think should make iTerm2 hidden prompts issue go away ... Using hiding codes improperly...
Removing double unapproved output in interactiveBashSource
4x for production build size now - do some memory testing to see CPU
Speed of test suite is an issue. --help test is super slow.
Fixed issue with bashUserInput not showing prompt - little known fact is that read displays the prompt on stderr and not on stdout - learn something new every day
Fixed file leak in usageDocumentComplex
---- Updating docs in _return
fixing fast
cleaning up developer.sh and adding --developer option to allow for optional setting of the --profile variables for systems where it may not be added
__developer.sh identical script serves similar purpose to previous version but is simpler
Adding /.intterupt.log to .gitignore - delete it a lot
Fixing fast-usage timing issue with --help being super slow
removing --help test from production
Ignore .git changes in main repo