How to check if core files have changed - css

I am working on a project in Bootstrap 4. I suspect that core file have been disturbed/changed by other developers and want to prove if i am right or wrong. How can i compare to both, as it is a huge framework.

I assume your Bootstrap core files are in dir1/ and you are on linux (or have access to a terminal, i.e. git shell).
Download the Bootstrap4 core files again into dir2/ next to dir1
Navigate to the parent directory of dir1 and dir2 in your terminal
run a diff i.e.: $ diff -r dir1/ dir2/
Check the output for differences

Yes, you can if you are using version control software (git?). If you don't use it it might be hard to show that change.

To expand on Andreas's answer, you can diff in a number of ways.
$ Diff
Most popular is likely shell/terminal diff as mentioned in Andrea's answer.
GitHub
You could also use version control tools, upload each as a branch, and see the diff in GitHub.
Software
There's also a number of installable software. I often use BeyondCompare to compare directories of photos to see if they've been edited.

Related

Different local and remote organisation R Project and GitHub

I want to version control my R scripts so I've created an R project and a GitHub repo. My scripts are scattered through several directories within the same directory where the R project is.
I would like that my GitHub repository harbors only the scripts, independently of the folders they are locally stored in. However when I run the below command:
git add folder/file.R
git commit -m "my_message"
git push -u origin master
A directory named folder is created containing file.R but I'd like to just see file.R without the folder. Do you know how can I do this? Also, would it be good practice? My local folders are organized so each directory contains its own scripts and results, that's the reason the scripts are separated.
Thank you very much
is there a way to add the file.R without specifying the path?
Not using git add, no. The design constraint for git add is that it should store the file's name exactly as it appears, including the forward slashes, so if the file's name is folder/file.R, that's the file's name.
You have some options here though:
You can make a parallel directory where you put the files with the names you want them to have. Run git init in that directory, copy the folder/file.R file to file.R in that directory. Then cd ../gitdir or whatever is appropriate to get there, and git add file.R.
This method is probably the best because it's the simplest.
You can write your own programs using git hash-file -w and git update-index, which are two of Git's plumbing commands. A plumbing command, in Git, is basically a command that exists so that you can build user-facing commands: they're not meant to be run by humans but rather by other programs. So you write a program (in whatever language you like) that uses these plumbing programs to achieve whatever you want.
In particular, you can create or find a Git blob object holding the contents of file.R as read from anywhere you like, then use git update-index to create an index entry holding whatever path you like and referring to the blob object you created (or found) with git hash-object with the -w flag.
Since Git is a suite of tools, not a solution, you can come up with your own method. The tools in Git are made with particular approaches in mind, but they are flexible enough to be repurposed.

Is it possible to use diff and patch tools to achieve the desired result?

I have a dir D-1.0.3 and D-1.0.5 with files A and B (and other subdirectories and files within D-x.x.x) with the following version tree of file A and B (alike in terms of versioning, also the other subdirs and files)
1.0.3 - 1.0.5
|
1.0.3.1 (head)
I would like to apply changes from 1.0.5 to 1.0.3.1 using diff and patch tool as i don't have access to git or svn tools associated to the files.
Is this possible using the unified diff format (or whatever)?How can I achieve that if possible (the command set i need to execute)?
I have checked that there is no adds, deletes or rename of the filename associated to the changes.
Many thanks!
yes, you can use diff to capture the difference between two directory trees. There are a few pitfalls:
in case you have new files (not in the older tree), you should use the -N option
if directories were added or removed, diff will not tell you about the files within those directories. I use a Perl script makepatch (an older version than on CPAN) which works around that problem.
For the simple case (no added/removed directories), you would use
diff -Naur olddirectory newdirectory >myfile.diff
and I would apply it in the top-level of the directory to be patched,
patch -p1 < myfile.diff
to eliminate problems due to the actual name of that directory. The -p1 option discards the name of the top-level directory.
To recap, assuming that these are the names of your directories, all subdirectories of the current directory:
diff -Naur 1.0.3 - 1.0.5 >mydiff.diff
cd 1.0.3.1 && patch -p1 <mydiff.diff

Testing plugins live with Varying Vagrant Vagrants

I'm currently trying to use VVV to develop and test my plugins. My host OS is Win10.
My plugins are in D:\Workshop\projects\vendor\module. I've used this folder structure for a long time, and it is really convenient, especially for use with Composer and friends.
Now I've installed VVV, created a site with VV. I want to test a plugin, the source code of which is in D:\Workshop\projects\XedinUnknown\my-project. So, I create a symlink in D:\Workshop\projects\XedinUnknown\vvv-local\www\my-test-site\htdocs\wp-content\plugins that points to that project's folder. Alas, it doesn't work. If I SSH into VVV and ls /srv/www/my-test-site/htdocs/wp-content/plugins, I can see my-project there, but it points to ../../../../../../../XedinUnknown/my-project, which, of course, doesn't exist. If instead of symlink I create a junction, it's just an empty file.
I suspect that this has to do with how the Linux environment handles Windows symlinks, but I'm not entirely sure. Is it possible to make this work somehow? I really don't wanna copy the whole project folder into VVV.
This is also addressed here.
So, it would seem like I've found somewhat of a solution. I added a synched folder, which maps to my projects home. I then create a symlink to that folder from the WP plugins directory, inside the VM.
Step 1 - Add Shared Folder
This should be done in a Customfile as explained here. This file should go into the same directory as the Vagrantfile, e.g. it will become the Vagrantfile's sibling. In my case, if you're following along from my question, it is in D:\Workshop\projects\XedinUnknown\vvv-local. Anything put here becomes global for the whole of VVV. This also gives you the ability to use different combinations of your projects in different websites. Add these contents to your Customfile, creating it if it does not exist.
config.vm.synced_folder "D:/Workshop/projects", "/srv/projects", :owner => "www-data", :mount_options => [ "dmode=775", "fmode=774" ]
Of course, you should replace D:/Workshop/projects with the path to where you store your projects. Note the forward slashes (/). This works on Win/Nix. For a Windows-only configuration, I suspect you'd have to replace them with \\, because this is an escape sequence.
Step 2 - Add Link to Project
This should be done in your site's vvv-init.sh file. In my case, this file was in D:\Workshop\projects\XedinUnknown\vvv-local\www\my-test-site\, because I want to create this symlink specifically for the my-test-site site. Please note that your VVV path will probably be different, and it doesn't have to be inside the projects directory. It's wherever you cloned VVV into. Add the below lines to your site's vvv-init.sh file.
if [ ! -f "htdocs/wp-content/plugins/my-project" ]; then
echo 'Creating symlink to plugin project...'
cd ./htdocs/wp-content/plugins
ln -s /srv/projects/XedinUnknown/my-project my-project
cd -
fi
In the above snippet, change the path to your desired project path, keeping in mind that /srv/projects/ now maps live to the projects root in your host OS. You can also replace the second occurrence (last word) of my-project in ln -s /srv/projects/XedinUnknown/my-project my-project with whatever you want. As long as you don't change it later, your plugin should not suddenly get de-activated.
Also, from what I understood, vvv-init.sh runs during provisioning, not every time the machine is brought up. So, if you want to run the code in there, you have to run vagrant up --provision from the VVV directory. If you don't want to provision, you can run it manually. SSH into VVV with vagrant ssh, then cd /srv/www/my-test-site (replace my-test-site with name of your site), and run . vvv-init.sh.
Afterword
I am quite new to Bash scripting, and I don't know if my solution is the best one, so please feel free to suggest better versions of the Bash script. I also don't know Ruby, and am new to Vagrant, so please feel free to suggest improvements to the Customfile - this is in essence the same as the Vagrantfile.
One possible issue that I can anticipate with this solution (and this is inherently by design of the filesystem architecture) is that if WordPress decides to make changes to your plugin, e.g. if you run a WP update, it will effectively delete all files in your project, including the repository. So, on the testing site I would recommend using something like this. I am in no way associated with this plugin.

Directory for files generated by Make during installation from configure, make and make install

Just assume we are installing some libraries from its source distributed by the way GNU promoted. When using "./configure --prefix" to specify where to install.
(1) does Make generate the binaries under the current directory? Does Make install then copies them from the current directory (which is from where Make is run) to $prefix? If the answers are yes, I have two questions, each for different cases.
(2) when the current directory and $prefix are not the same, can I remove all the files generated by Make under current directories to save some space?
(3) when the current directory and $prefix are the same, will make install do nothing or copy the files to themselves? Can I just skip the make install step?
The answer to your first question is probably yes.
As for the rest, you may find a make clean which will tidy up the files created by the initial make.
I think the makefile will be able to handle the situation where current directory and $prefix are not the same, and do the right thing.
The current directory would not usually be the destination of files created by makefiles.
(of course it depends on how the makefile is written, so I can't give definite answers, but I've generally been impressed with the makefiles I've used)
You are absolutely right: make just creates files in current directory and make install copies it to the destination directories, based on $prefix and other variables maintained by configure script.
You can wipe out the whole directory you've ran the build at. It will not be used, because, well, that's what "install" means: you build in one directory and the the files are placed in the proper places of your system.
Usually install destination and the directory you build in differ. The hierarchy of the files being installed usually do not relate to directory hierarchy of the build system. Just install to the other dir: it's cheap to create just yet another directory.

Enabling JPEG support for QImage in py2exe-compiled Python scripts?

I'm trying to use a JPEG image in a QImage object from a Python script, with PyQt4.
The script itself works perfectly, the image loads and can be manipulated and rendered and all. However, when I try to "compile" this script with py2exe, everything works but the JPEG image. Replacing it with a PNG equivalent works, but since my program downloads images from the web, they won't always be in PNG format and I can't afford converting them all with another library.
I've discovered that JPEG image support for QImage, along with other image formats, is provided by some DLLs in the \qt\plugins\imageformats directory (they're called qjpeg4.dll and qjpeg4d.dll). I think I need to use them somehow in my executable, but I don't know how. I've tried simply copying them to my exe directory, no luck. I've tried, as indicated here, to include those files as data_files in the setup.py script, but no luck (it looks like all it does is copying these files to the exe's directory, so it changes nothing from copying them manually anyway).
I'm sure there's a handful of applications out there using PyQt with JPEG images, how do they do it? It seemed like a trivial task but I'm stuck on it now.
Also, I want my app to be cross-platform (why else would I be coding in Python?), I hope I won't run into such packaging trouble (it's not the only one) when packaging for OS X or Linux. Will I?
After hours of stumbling around with the same issue, I’d like to share the solution that worked for me on windows vista:
using python2.6
copy the following directory into your dist directory generated by py2exe:
C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\plugins\imageformats
I just dropped the imageformats directory directly into my dist directory, without any further modifications to qt.conf or anything like that. I haven’t tried it, but this may work for phonon as well.
I'll have to confess I never managed to get the py2exe + pyqt combination quite right (and, py2exe doesn't help at all with cross-platform packaging). PyInstaller seems to be much better -- the docs at http://www.pyinstaller.org/ are old, but the svn trunk is much more recent. Some docs are in slides given at the recent Pycon Italia Tre conference -- http://www.pycon.it/static/stuff/slides/distribuire-programmi-python-con-pyinstaller.pdf -- and, the slides are in English, and contain the current maintainer's email, so they should help! (And, let's all lobby the current maintainer to update the docs...!-)
Try adding a qt.conf file to your exe's directory, to tell qt where to find binaries and plugins.
Something like the following works for the simple case, where you just dump all dll's in the same dir as the exe:
[Paths]
Prefix = .
Plugins = .
Update: Then copy your plugins-contents (the imageformat/sqldriver directories etc) to the exe dir. I don't think you can load plugin dlls from the same directory as the exe. See Qt plugin doc for details on plugon subdirectories. (Or, leave out the 'plugins = .' and copy the plugins dir to the exe dir, so you have /plugins/imageloaders/qjpeg4.dll).
Etienne -- Thank you for the tip. After much reading and trial-and-error, I arrived at the same conclusion: use PIL to show jpegs in a py2app-generated app.
http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2009/08/27/pyqt-and-py2app-seriously-i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-you-when-youre-like-this/
What I guess is that the proposed solutions for py2exe/Windows don't necessarily apply to py2app/OSX.
I'm on OSX Leopard.
Let's suppose you have an application MyApp.app.
Put the libraries libqjpeg.dylib and libqgif.dylib in
MyApp.app/Contents/plugins/imageformats/
Put this in qt.conf in MyApp.app/Contents/resources/:
[Paths]
Prefix = .
Binaries = .
On my machine (Leopard) this works.
After trying all the above solutions in vain, I just ended up using PIL to load my images. Since I wanted to convert these images to a texture in an OpenGL Qt widget, the result was the same whether I load the image using Qt or PIL. Still, I'm baffled that such a basic thing as loading JPEGs is so complicated in a GUI library as well-known and widely used as Qt.
I had the exact same problem. Fixed it using this : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-June/669374.html
Copy Qt plugins to the directory: $YOUR_DIST_PATH/PyQt4/plugins;
Copy qt.conf to your dist directory;
Edit qt.conf, change Prefix to ./PyQt4
For me, the problem was solved just copying the "qt.conf" for the directory of the executable.
You can find the "qt.conf" in ...\PythonXX\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\qt.conf.
Thanks for help.
Everything above failed for me until I realized that I was bundling the .exe (that is, I had the option "bundle_files" : 2 in my setup.py. I changed it to bundle_files = 2, and now it works great.
The above solutions are fine. Specifically, I just added the following line in my setup.py:
data = [ ("imageformats", glob.glob("C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\plugins\imageformats*.dll")) ]
(in addition to other files, of course).
Then, the image loading dlls are in MY_EXE_DIR/imageformats
I didn't need a qt.conf to make this work, though I'm sure you could use it if you want to keep your directory tree less cluttered.
It is possible to use the JPEG plugin with a py2exe'd script, even using bundle_files. You need to arrange two things to get this to work properly:
Copy PyQt4/plugins/imageformats to the output directory of py2exe (default: dist)
You only have to copy the formats you actually need.
When use the bundle_files option you need to execlude the Qt dll files from the
zipfile using the --dll-excludes option for pyexe.
You still have to copy the Qt DLLs to the output directory some other way (such as
by using the data_files option).
on windows, suggested solutions work perfectly.
however, on osx can't make it work even with instructions here above.
question is: the libqjpeg.dylib and libqgif.dylib files are located in the /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/imageformats/ directory, and that if you have installed Qt itself, not just PyQt. these files do not work for me.
in PyQt distribution, i see the files libqjpeg.bundle and libqgif.bundle in /opt/local/libexec/qt4-mac/plugins/imageformats/, however these are not libraries, and btw i cannot open their contents either, even if they have the .bundle extension. using these files instead does not work either.
i am curious to know what have you done to make it work on osx. i have installed PyQt following this guide.
Thanks for your helpful answers for the question! I have encountered same problem as you did and no solutions could help. Hopefully, I was using VCS and found that old version of my app loaded JPEG images correctly and new versions stopped doing it. I caught this bug using PySide v1.2.2.
To enable libraries loading, I used the same solution as #Macke did (i.e. added and edited qt.conf).
My qt.conf was next:
[Paths]
Binaries = .
Plugins = qtplugins
C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PySide\plugins directory was copied to qtplugins directory, so I had next directories:
qtplugins\accessible
qtplugins\codecs
qtplugins\graphicssystems
qtplugins\iconengines
qtplugins\imageformats
I had next code:
class NotesCalendar(QtGui.QCalendarWidget):
note_icon = QtGui.QImage("res/16note.png")
Moving class variable NotesCalendar.note_icon to constructor solved the problem and Qt started loading its libraries correctly. Seems that class variable constructor interrupted some internal PySide stuff.
It works with no problems on Windows. Specifying correct qt.conf and copying plugins directory is enough to enable JPEG support in py2exe + PySide build. Of course, you must have no problems in your own code.
I hope this will save someone a day! ;)

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