WIP : New scripting system

[Spitfireap]

Goal : Make the build process of the book more straightforward for everyone, improve the GUI, makes the code more resilient and streamlined.
Sub-Goal : implement a github action to build the book automatically.

[Spitfireap]

Hi @becarpenter,
So I've worked a bit on the refactor of the code. As you wished, I've not forgotten non-cli-users. In fact, their experience got better :p.

The changes may seem consequent (especially regarding the GUI part) but it will be really easy to add new tasks to it. Furthermore, ounce I'll have imported the other scripts, the absolute diff might even be negative...

If you can test run_gui.py I would be glad. And if it looks ok for you I'll go forward and migrate the other scripts. The end goal is to have only one entry point to the jobs to make it easier for everyone to contribute as well as implementing the github action.

[becarpenter]

Thanks, again this will take me a few days due to real life...

[becarpenter]

@Spitfireap, got myself into a bit of trouble there - switched my branch to PR 115 but I didn't seem to get a new version of makeBook.py that uses the new logging module, so it crashed out. What did I miss?

(In general I like the refactoring; I grew up as an old school procedural programmer as you may have realised from my coding style, but I always meant to come back and do something like what you did. I just need to check it out in a sandbox before merging.)

[Spitfireap]

Hi @becarpenter , I've been busy. So, when does it crash ? Did you launch run_gui.py or something else ?

[becarpenter]

OK, cette fois j'ai fait plus d'attention et j'ai essayé run_gui.py comme tu as proposé...
I ran it against my sandbox copy and it worked fine except for one thing. Instead of overwriting the old baked.epub, it created baked_epub.md and I had to rename it! All looks good to me.

By the way there is no good reason why the output files are baked.pdf and baked.epub; they could be book6.pdf and book6.epub. I called the whole process "bake" because Nick one day made a typo when he meant "make" and I thought it was quite funny. ("bake" = cuire ou faire du pain)

[Spitfireap]

Super alors :)
Indeed I see the error. I'll correct it.
So I'll migrate all the other scripts and update the doc and lastly I'll create the github action.

The export name can sure change. Funny story for the name, tbf it didn't strike me since "baking" is also use in Blender for instance :p.