kevinwang / csa-usb-tool

Tool to download all files in a given FIRST season needed to support teams.

CSA-USB-Tool

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.

Breaking changes incoming! (CSA USB Tool v2)

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/Usage

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.

PreRequisites

• .NET 6 Runtime