About

ChucK Versioned Live Coding (lc) facilities live coding within ChucK by providing easy to use git versioning.

lc is

  • Git versioning of ChucK
  • Shortened commands
  • Designed for terminal livecoding

Download

From github.

Requires

lc requires a current install ChucK.

Available free here.

lc has been tested on OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6.

Manual

Setup

Install git on local host of versioned files. Git can be downloaded here.

$ cd project-folder
$ git init

First time git users would be advised to read the Offical Git Tutorial

Use

As files are created they need to be added to the versioning

$ git add file-name

Also we need to start the ChucK VM

$ chuck --loop

For one window Chuck 

$ chuck --loop &

 

lc

Run ChucK file

$ lc file-name.ck

This will add the file to ChucK and then report the git submission report.

To replace the running Chuck code

$ lc file-name.ck shred-id

Shred id can be established via 

$ chuck ^

lc Development

Development hosted at https://github.com/scotthewitt/lc

File source below.

#!/bin/bash

# File provides version interface via git for Chuck
# no args error
# 1 args  add file and run git commit
# 2 args  replace shred with file and run git commit

if [ -z "$1" ]; then #no args
echo $0 please submit file or file and shred number to replace
exit
elif [ -z "$2" ]; then # single filename argh add file and do git commit
FILE=$1
echo add $FILE
chuck + $FILE
git commit -a -m "live coding record"
exit
else
FILE=$1
ID=$2
echo replace shred $2 with $FILE
chuck = $ID $FILE
git commit -a -m "live coding record"
fi

Code checks for args and excutes appropriate section.

The git commit recorded could be altered if required, contained within ” “.