Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) and modern GitHub Pages deployment workflow rollout for our projects is finished!

#ADT #Aptivi #GitHub #DocFX #dotnet #csharp #programming #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/github-actions-web-deployment-and-adt-rollout-complete/

GitHub Actions web deployment and ADT rollout complete!

We have documented the improved process for GitHub Actions workflows in our projects regarding both the development toolkit and the web deployment process. This process was necessary to ensure that future versions of our projects use the modern approach of development more efficiently.

We have successfully completed the GitHub Actions workflows rollout to all projects that utilize the following methods:

• Web deployment: We have fixed the deployment process of the API documentation, and we have studied the deployment workflows and applied necessary changes to the website.
• Development toolkit rollout: We have successfully rolled out the new Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) across all projects in lesser time than expected due to the smoothness of the rollout.

We are so excited to announce that what is initially expected to take a month to roll them out has been done in under two weeks! This is achieved as a result of our plans involving the verification stage of all our workflows, ensuring that things work as expected.

Both processes are transparent, which means that you can see the related changes that were done in the commit history of all projects.

New versions of ADT will be developed continuously, with Nitrocid and Terminaux being testing grounds for such development to ensure that things go smoothly.

We are committed to providing continued improvements across our projects.

14. März
Vier deutschsprachige Star Trek Premieren gab es #AnDiesemTag:

#TOS Meister der Sklaven
#TNG Der unbekannte Schatten
#DS9 Facetten
#DS9 Kriegsgeschäfte

#StarTrek #ADT

13. März
#AnDiesemTag hatten sechs Star Trek Episoden ihre deutschsprachige Premiere, darunter gleich drei von unserer liebsten Raumstation:

#TNG Hotel Royale
#DS9 Der Parasit
#DS9 Shakaar
#DS9 Der Datenkristall
#VOY Unschuld
#PIC Bruchstücke

#StarTrek #ADT

All Aptivi projects will use Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) instead of the older script-based system!

#Aptivi #ADT #Python #Python3 #TechNews #TechUpdates #csharp #programming #dotnet

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/aptivi-development-toolkit-adt-migration-for-our-projects/

Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) migration for our projects

In an earlier announcement, we have announced the existence of the Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) toolset that allows you to make your own build system for your projects using Python scripts.

Now, we are planning to roll it out to all our projects, starting from this week, with more projects being on the list, and the rollout is expected to be finished within two whole weeks.

Starting from this week (March 8th to 14th), we will gradually update the following projects to use the new build system:

• Textify
• Colorimetry
• VisualCard
• SpecProbe
• Magico

After those projects get updated, the remaining projects will have been updated by the end of the next week. This is necessary to find and fix the last of the bugs before the wider rollout.

Meanwhile, we have made the documentation for the toolkit available on our GitBook instance as you can see here. This documentation will be gradually expanded as we develop new versions and during the rollout period.

The toolkit is open source, and you can see its source code here, cloneable as a Git submodule.

07. März
Drei Star Trek Episoden hatten an #AnDiesemTag ihre deutschsprachige Premiere:

#TOS Der erste Krieg
#TNG Der Pakt mit dem Teufel
#DS9 Durch den Spiegel

#StarTrek #ADT

06. März
#AnDiesemTag gab es sechs deutschsprachige Star Trek Premieren:

#TNG Die Iconia-Sonden
#DS9 Der Fall "Dax"
#DS9 Ferne Stimmen
#DS9 Das Baby
#VOY Die Verdopplung
#PIC Nepenthe

#StarTrek #ADT

🎉 Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) is now available! 🎉

#Aptivi #ADT #Python #Python3 #TechNews #TechUpdates #csharp #programming #dotnet

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/aptivi-development-toolkit-adt-is-now-official/

Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) is now official!

Our earlier announcement talked about how we’ve finalized the development of the new toolkit and how it would replace the older script-based toolkit. We have stated that the older script-based toolkit suffered from the following problems:

• Maintenance burdens: The older toolkit raised maintenance concerns, since we have to make sure that the toolkit’s features work properly in both Windows and Unix by maintaining two shell types and keeping them in sync.
• Structure inconsistency: Users were required to provide a script file for each action on Windows, while they were required to provide functions that implement a specific action, all in one script, on Unix.
• Complex problems required complex solutions: Since the older script-based toolkit used batch files and Bash scripts, problems that were more complex required complex and potentially fragile solutions.
• Readability issues: The scripts suffer from readability issues, due to lots of variety needed for this toolkit to happen, such as argument processing for an action. This makes maintenance harder and more time consuming.

Today, we are very excited to announce that the all-new toolkit, Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT), is now available!

This toolkit solves the above problems by using Python as the scripting language due to its coherence and efficiency. By making the implementation of vendor scripts easier and more readable, long-term maintenance is guaranteed. This careful study has resulted in a toolkit that allows you to implement complex problems more efficiently, while maintaining readability.

Here are some of the key features of how ADT will transform your development experience when working on projects:

• Python instead of shell scripts: We have advocated into using Python 3.x in the development toolkit as it’s available on all major platforms, such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. It also simplifies the way you implement your vendor scripts to reduce maintenance burden and to make your scripts more convenient to work with.
• Built-in report system: The development toolkit provides you an “internal report” facility that allows you to generate a report about your project to a text file either locally or on a remote SSH server. This lets you get extensive details about your projects effortlessly.
• Built-in basic Git integration: ADT also contains the Git integration, which allows you to perform some of the most common Git operations, including committing, pushing, and so on. This is not a drop-in replacement for Git and its command-line interface, as it only focuses on the basics.
• Conventional commits: The Git integration’s commits use conventional commits that we’ve described in our contribution guidelines. Alternatively, you can use the standard git commit command if you want to opt out from conventional commits.
• Cloneable as a Git submodule: ADT respects the old script-based toolkit’s goals by making it cloneable as a submodule to make the toolkit focus on only one project. This also allows you to maintain different revisions of ADT across different Git repositories.

To add ADT as a submodule to your project, use git submodule add https://github.com/Aptivi/tools.

Please note that you’ll have to obtain Python 3.10 or greater to be able to use this toolkit without any problems.