xact VS abs_cd

https://github.com/wtpayne/xact - Model Based Systems/Software Engineering tool with support for machine learning and synthetic data.

MBSE is a vastly underappreciated technique, and one that deserves much more exposure in the mainstream tech community.

Sadly, I have found myself exceedingly disappointed at the tooling available to support MBSE, having mainly used Simulink, and also experimented with a few others like Rhapsody, Capella and EA.

Constant mouse usage with Simulink gave me really bad RSI, and merging models was a pain, due to the way that layout and structural information were mixed together in the xml-based .mdl file format.

So (naturally) I made a text-based alternative. It's a bit like TensorFlow in that you create a compute graph (computational model), and then run it.

The model itself can be generated dynamically in a script, using JQuery-like syntax to add or change nodes, or alternatively it can be stored and version controlled in one or more text files, using YAML, XML, JSON or TOML (or some mixture of those) to serialise the structure in an easy-to-diff-and-merge form.

https://github.com/wtpayne/xact

Get a CI to check if pkg build in clean environments. So many users will falsely report broken packages while they simply ran makepkg in their arch installation & the build system pulls crap from it into the build process & it fails despite your pkg being fine. It's a shame every AUR helper except aurutils still doesn't support building in clean chroots, but you can't change that. I build https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd for that, which end the end served a custom repo easing the installation for users, too. There are plenty alternatives to my SW out there, too.

You can find the CD status on https://abs-cd.oscloud.info/

This commit should also be a good example on how to configure crond to work well with logging in an Arch container.

https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd

A CI/CD with webinterface for Archlinux packages which optional AUR push support if builds succeed. It's based on Django and works with Docker/Podman. I originally made it for my own AUR packages (> 300), I needed accessible build logs if I want to collab, which the common builders didn't provide. I made the project public and it's crazy for me as an open source beginner to see how many people like this. The basic features are complete, but things like multiarch are getting add soon.

It now has podman compatibility as as a PR: https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd/pull/8

It now should have podman compatibility, would be nice if you test it: https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd/pull/8

If it really takes that long (and you maybe have more than one device or your friends use the same packages) and you can't find a user already packaging it in their private repo you could host an own repo in you local network. I created a CI/CD software for Arch packages which makes this easier: https://github.com/bionade24/abs_cd