version log

[littlegreenbean33]

Hi,

I was just prompted with new 1.49 version but I see no branch activity in github. ?¿?

Is there a version log with improvement from the different versions ?

Thanks. Great work. I have been using it daily for the last 3 weeks and it is a significant efficiency imporvement.

[vshymanskyy]

The version log currently not being maintained, as there are a lot of small changes and it's not well-structured. You can see the commit log though

[vshymanskyy]

I have been using it daily for the last 3 weeks and it is a significant efficiency improvement.

Could you please elaborate, what workflow have you been using and what's the improvement?

[littlegreenbean33]

Well, instead of editing on my laptop, downloading, executing.....reset... in my prototyping cycle, I just develop directly on the board using ViperIDE. Out of a click I can soft-reset. I have a small script that via mpremote downloads my assets back to my computer for version control and snapshots. Nothing extremely sophisticated.

[brainstorm]

Well, instead of editing on my laptop, downloading, executing.....reset... in my prototyping cycle, I just develop directly on the board using ViperIDE. Out of a click I can soft-reset. I have a small script that via mpremote downloads my assets back to my computer for version control and snapshots. Nothing extremely sophisticated.

I second that analysis, ViperIDE is great and I've been recommending it to a few friends!

I was about to write that mpremote script myself (after seeing the discussion in #12 and doing it manually for now). I'm a bit disappointed that it needs disconnecting/re-connecting for the sync/copy ops though because Viper-IDE and mpremote have exclusive read access to the board (as expected). @littlegreenbean33, can you share your script and workflow?

OTOH, I think that a direct integration with github repository contents API could be a killer feature to avoid losing recent "local" board/host changes... context: I introduced a change on my board that locked me out completely, even mpremote cp didn't work. I had to resort to esptool.py read_flash ... to carve out the flash .py files with radare2 to recover my latest changes from the flash dump.

@vshymanskyy If there was an integration with Github repos API, there would be no need for local filesystem/sync and changes could potentially be staged on save and committed whenever the user wants (even on every X saves, for instance)?

[vshymanskyy]

The idea is cool 😎
But, i'm wondering how the sync could work. In instance, i have a GitHub repo with some files. Now, i'm connecting a device that may have a slightly (or completely) different file system. Which one is correct? Is this device even associated with the repository?
Same applies to regular host filesystem access, if/when it gets implemented.

[brainstorm]

Moving this GitHub repo contents idea to a separate issue (don't want to steal this thread): #19