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Proposing a note in the readme for those doing manual builds to run git clean -xfd when updating to a newer commit of the repo, particularly when updating dependencies. This is to help those running into the issue where they notice a runtime issue on electron build of "Error module did not self-register" ( drivelist.node ).
The jenkinsfile for what is (was?) the 'next' build has also done this according to https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-blueprint/issues/349#issuecomment-2364956584 . As a casual developer (not using Jenkins) who comes back to working on Theia intermittently this issue has come back to frustrate me for a while and seems to have come up in other conversations (see https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13126 ). There may be some better ways to handle this but the git clean -xfd approach has seemingly been more reliable and think there should be some note to help those getting started with theia-blueprint.
How to test
I suspect the issue others experience can be reproduced by:
Try checking out theia-blueprint with an earlier commit (e.g. around 1.38.0) and manually building theia-blueprint
Pull to a newer commit (e.g. 1.53.2) with dependency changes.
Try manually building again, to making an electron build (preview or package), even with 'yarn clean' at the beginning.
[See NOTE] as an author, I have thoroughly tested my changes and carefully followed the review guidelines
NOTE: This is a readme change just suggesting to clean out data before build after changes. Open to feedback if there's a better way to approach this, but so far from my brief tests doing git clean -xfd seems to help reduce the chance of encountering the ""Error module did not self-register" runtime issue after making changes (either by updating dependencies by hand or by merging/pulling to newer commits).
What it does
Proposing a note in the readme for those doing manual builds to run
git clean -xfdwhen updating to a newer commit of the repo, particularly when updating dependencies. This is to help those running into the issue where they notice a runtime issue on electron build of "Error module did not self-register" ( drivelist.node ).The jenkinsfile for what is (was?) the 'next' build has also done this according to https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-blueprint/issues/349#issuecomment-2364956584 . As a casual developer (not using Jenkins) who comes back to working on Theia intermittently this issue has come back to frustrate me for a while and seems to have come up in other conversations (see https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/13126 ). There may be some better ways to handle this but the
git clean -xfdapproach has seemingly been more reliable and think there should be some note to help those getting started with theia-blueprint.How to test
I suspect the issue others experience can be reproduced by:
Review checklist
NOTE: This is a readme change just suggesting to clean out data before build after changes. Open to feedback if there's a better way to approach this, but so far from my brief tests doing
git clean -xfdseems to help reduce the chance of encountering the ""Error module did not self-register" runtime issue after making changes (either by updating dependencies by hand or by merging/pulling to newer commits).Reminder for reviewers