This tool downloads all the installers/packages for a given FRC season. CSA's commonly need these on hand in a USB to help teams update to the latest version or to diagnose issues.
There is currently a very heavy rewrite being done in the background as I have time to do it. Goals of this rewrite are as follows:
- Multi-platform support
- Specifically support for OSX/Linux via a Command Line interface
- Windows included for CLI
- Move off of WinForms
- It sucks.
- Migration to a better format/organization of the software available per season
- Unknown whether this will still be a CSV, or if it'll be a different format like JSON.
- This would also enable better support for external tools wanting to make use of the updated lists
- Provide better crash/bug reporting/logging and metrics (opt-out)
- This is done via DevCycle (my work) - with anonymous data/metrics recording of what software is downloaded and when to provide better understanding of when the tool is used.
- Provide a proper installer for Windows
- This would allow you to update the tool year to year without re-downloading it and just checking for an update (Windows only unfortunately).
- Signed Windows binaries
- Code-signed binary to prevent smartscreen warnings.
- FTA specific tooling
- TBD
These changes are expected to be a breaking change - where the old season file lists will be converted; but no new versions will be added to the "Years.txt" requiring an update to the base binary.
Download the release zip file from the GitHub releases on the right hand side ->
There is a C# GUI available as a github release (recommended), or you can use the pyusbtool.py python script. The Python script is not packaged with the release; but you can download it standalone from the repo.
Example usage of the python script on unix based systems:
$ ./pyusbtool.py FRCSoftware<YEAR>.csv /path/to/drive/ --download- .NET 6 Runtime