Robot Base

SERT's base robot code for Gradle and Kotlin.

Yearly Repository Setup

There are two ways to go about the yearly repository setup. You can either set it up manually, or make things easy on yourself and do it the automatic way.

Manual Setup

$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/SouthEugeneRoboticsTeam/Robot-Base.git GameName-Year
$ rm -rf !$/.git
$ git init
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/SouthEugeneRoboticsTeam/GameName-Year.git
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
$ git push origin master

Things to Update

1. Package name and actual package
2. GradleRIO dependency

Automatic Setup

First, install the robot-maker CLI. Then, use the CLI to clone the repository and update packages and Gradle as needed!

$ robot-maker ./PowerUp-2018

Boom! You're done!

Building

Unfortunately, GradleRIO made a bad decision to use dynamic versioning which is a feature Gradle has that will find the latest version of a dependency for you. This sounds good, but is very bad for several reasons: lack of build reproducibility, stuff could change under you without notice, Gradle makes a network call to check if you have the latest version of a dependency on every build, etc. The last example is the main issue because it prevents building robot code unless you have an internet connection (which the robot doesn't). To get around this issue, you have to push code to the robot with the --offline flag.

TL;DR

1. To get everything downloaded and setup, run ./gradlew build once while online
2. When pushing code to the robot, use ./gradlew deploy --offline