Prepare for version 8.7.0 and other improvements

1. Version upgraded to 8.7.0
2. Updated changelog for version 8.7.0
3. Auto convert multibootusb file ending to Linux using dos2unix during packaging
4. Re-enable log message
5. Avoid crashing due to existence of syslinux.cfg

Author: mbusb

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,6 +1,26 @@
-Version - 8.6.0
+Version - 8.7.0
 ---------------
+* Welcome "Alin Trăistaru (alindt)". He is one of the major contributor for the project
+* Hide GUI widgets when installation is progress
+* Show USB disk size in USB details
+* Reduced CPU usage drastically
+* Open default text editor application under Linux for editing syslinux file
+* Reduced various redundant function calls
+* Dropped p7zip-plugin for suse and mageia (package not available in repo)
+* Improved CLI user experience. Windows users should run from source to avail this option
+* Added custom functions for writing custom loopback.cfg file
+* Various code cleanup
+* Removed windows line ending which prevented application not to start under Linux
+* Corrected systemrescuecd subdir path
+* Full credit to  and added as
+* Added colour to terminal output
+* Bundled Colorama module
+* Added vba32rescue ISO
+* Added PC Tools ISO
+* Few other minor improvements to code
 
+Version - 8.6.0
+---------------
 ==> A very big thanks to "Alin Trăistaru (alindt)". All credits goes to him for redesigning of GUI and code cleanups <==
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

build_pkg

@@ -279,6 +279,9 @@ def usage():
     sys.exit(-1)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if platform.system() == 'Linux':
+        print('Converting line ending to Linux for proper functioning.')
+        os.system('dos2unix multibootusb')
     argv = sys.argv
     if not os.path.exists(release_dir):
         print("Release directory does not exist.\nPlease mount and rerun the script.")

data/version.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-8.6.0
+8.7.0

multibootusb

@@ -44,17 +44,16 @@ def log(message, info=True, error=False, debug=False):
                         level=logging.DEBUG)
     print(message)
 
-    '''
     # remove ANSI color codes from logs
-    message_clean = re.compile(r'\x1b[^m]*m').sub('', message)
+    # message_clean = re.compile(r'\x1b[^m]*m').sub('', message)
 
     if info is True:
-        logging.info(message_clean)
+        logging.info(message)
     elif error is not False:
-        logging.error(message_clean)
+        logging.error(message)
     elif debug is not False:
-        logging.debug(message_clean)
-    '''
+        logging.debug(message)
+
 
 
 def resource_path(relativePath):
@@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ def print_version():
     Simple log the version number of the multibootusb application
     :return:
     """
-    log('multibootusb version: ', mbusb_version())
+    log('multibootusb version: ' + mbusb_version())
 
 
 def quote(text):
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ def is_quoted(text):
     :param text:    Any word or sentence with or without quote.
     :return:        True if text is quoted else False.
     """
-    if text.startswith("""") and text.endswith("""):
+    if text.startswith("\"") and text.endswith("\""):
         return True
     else:
         return False
@@ -140,10 +139,10 @@ def mbusb_log_file():
     """
     Function to genrate path to log file.
     Under linux path is created as /tmp/multibootusb.log
-    Under Windows the file is created under 
+    Under Windows the file is created under installation directory
     """
     if platform.system() == "Linux":
-        home_dir = os.path.expanduser('~')
+        # home_dir = os.path.expanduser('~')
         # log_file = os.path.join(home_dir, "multibootusb.log")
         log_file = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "multibootusb.log")
     elif platform.system() == "Windows":

scripts/gen.py

@@ -233,9 +233,15 @@ def update_distro_cfg_files(iso_link, usb_disk, distro, persistence=0):
     # Ensure that isolinux.cfg file is copied as syslinux.cfg to boot correctly.
     for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(install_dir):
         for f in filenames:
-            if f.endswith("isolinux.cfg") or f.endswith("ISOLINUX.CFG"):
-                if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(dirpath, "syslinux.cfg")) or not os.path.exists(os.path.join(dirpath, "SYSLINUX.CFG")):
-                    shutil.copy2(os.path.join(dirpath, f), os.path.join(dirpath, "syslinux.cfg"))
+            if f.lower().endswith("isolinux.cfg"):
+                if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(dirpath, "syslinux.cfg")):
+                    try:
+                        shutil.copyfile(os.path.join(dirpath, f), os.path.join(dirpath, "syslinux.cfg"))
+                    except Exception as e:
+                        log('Copying isolinux to syslinux failed...')
+                        log(e)
+                else:
+                    continue
 
     # Assertain if the entry is made..
     sys_cfg_file = os.path.join(config.usb_mount, "multibootusb", "syslinux.cfg")