Bringing cpropep source to the current decade

Disclaimer

All content is developed by the authors mentioned in the comments of the files.

I am keeping this copy for personal research purposes. Contact me if you are the author and wish for this to be removed.

/* Copyright (C) 2000                                                  */
/*    Antoine Lefebvre <antoine.lefebvre@polymtl.ca>                   */
/*    Mark Pinese <pinese@cyberwizards.com.au>                         */
/*                                                                     */
/* Licensed under the GPLv2                                            */

Introduction

In my rocket propulsion studies I encountered a nifty tool called cpropep and have been fascinated by it ever since.

This fascination started with me developing a MatLab API to the compiled tool (which can be found at thrust-team/mpropep) and ended up in the rabbit hole of me trying to reverse engineer the original source code and learn bash, git and ANSI C.

The following is a sort of log diary of the steps taken to create this repo.

First try

At first I downloaded the the full repository (following the instructions on the SourceForge rocketworkbench repository with the use of cvs), removed all CVS folders and tried to compile it loading the folders in MS Visual Studio. After some tricks and moving source and library files around the folders, the executable was working but the process was not scriptable and I did not learn much from it.

Environment

To do these tasks I suggest a Unix environment. If you are on Windows I suggest WSL or a Virtual Machine.

To install WSL easily open an Admin Powershell Win+X+A, enable WSL and install for instance Debian:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/wsl-debian-gnulinux -OutFile Debian.appx -UseBasicParsing
Add-AppxPackage .\Debian.appx 

Open the bash shell (open start menu and search "Debian") then install git and git cvs

sudo apt install git git-cvs

Make sure you have curl and gpg, add GitHub as a repository for apps, and then install gh

sudo apt install curl gpg
curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gh

Login to your GitHub account

gh auth login

Unix way

I started looking for alternative ways to import a CVS repository into git, and found a way

git cvsimport -C target-cvs -r cvs -k -vA authors-file.txt -d $CVSROOT module

which, if adapted to my case, becomes

mkdir rocketworkbench
cd rocketworkbench
git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rocketworkbench $module -C $module
cd ..

where $modules are all the libraries needed to compile cpropep, listed in the Makefile:

• cpropep
• libcpropep
• libnum
• libthermo
• libcompat

Each folder of these modules has become a separate git repository, which are to be merged following Eric Lee's advice, although his mv commands did not work well for me.

I started by creating a new repo which would include all repos to be merged

mkdir cpropep-git
cd crpopep-git
git init

and by making a first commit with a dummy file

dir > deleteme.txt
git add .
git commit -m "Initial dummy commit"

Now, for every $module, a git remote will be added to the cpropep-git repo

for module in cpropep libnum libthermo libcpropep libcompat
do
    [...]
done

Inside the loop, I will do the following steps.

Add modules as remotes

git remote add -f $module ../rocketworkbench/$module

Merge the module history with the current repository source

git merge $module/master --allow-unrelated-histories --no-edit

Create subfolders to move the files to, move them and delete the starting empty folders

mkdir $module $module/doc/ $module/src/ $module/include/
mv doc/* $module/doc/
mv src/* $module/src/
mv include/* $module/include/
mv Makefile $module/Makefile
mv Makefile.win $module/Makefile.win
find . -type d -empty -delete

Commit the new module to the main repo:

git add .
git commit -m "Import $module files"

The data folder has a different structure and will be treated separately:

git remote add -f data ../rocketworkbench/data
git merge data/master --allow-unrelated-histories --no-edit
mkdir data
mv propellant.dat data/propellant.dat
mv thermo.dat data/thermo.dat
mv references.txt data/references.txt
git add .
git commit -m "Import data files"

Clean the dummy file inserted at the start

git rm ./deleteme.txt
git commit -m "Clean dummy file"

Create a GitHub repository and push the commit history source

gh repo create cpropep-git
git push --set-upstream origin master

Result

The entire script is then:

mkdir rocketworkbench
cd rocketworkbench
for module in cpropep libnum libthermo libcpropep libcompat
do
    git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rocketworkbench $module -C $module
done
cd ..

mkdir cpropep-git
cd cpropep-git
git init
dir > deleteme.txt
git add .
git commit -m "Initial dummy commit"

for module in cpropep libnum libthermo libcpropep libcompat
do
    git remote add -f $module ../rocketworkbench/$module
    git merge $module/master --allow-unrelated-histories --no-edit


    mkdir $module $module/doc/ $module/src/ $module/include/
    mv doc/* $module/doc/
    mv src/* $module/src/
    mv include/* $module/include/
    mv Makefile $module/Makefile
    mv Makefile.win $module/Makefile.win
    find . -type d -empty -delete

    git add .
    git commit -m "Import $module files"
done

git remote add -f data ../rocketworkbench/data
git merge data/master --allow-unrelated-histories --no-edit
mkdir data
mv propellant.dat data/propellant.dat
mv thermo.dat data/thermo.dat
mv references.txt data/references.txt
git add .
git commit -m "Import data files"

git rm ./deleteme.txt
git commit -m "Clean dummy file"

gh repo create cpropep-git
git push --set-upstream origin master

although running all commands together is not advised.

The End

I did it! This repo is the result of merging the required libraries to compile cpropep. The last step is to provide continuous integration and let GitHub compile the source. (To be continued)