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.

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