The PlantUML Standard Library makes it possible to use popular icons in PlantUML with zero effort.

The plantuml-stdlib code is based on other projects.

As there were changes in some of those repos that were not (yet) in plantuml-stdlib, I decided to open some merge-requests to update things.

Because I don't like to do things manually that could be automated, I spend some time creating two BASH scripts:

• check-sources-for-update.sh
• update_sources.sh

The first script checks if there are updates for the libraries in the plantuml-stdlib codebase. The second updates all the libraries in the plantuml-stdlib codebase.

check-sources-for-update.sh

To use this script, make sure there is an up-to-date version of the plantuml-stdlib git repository locally.

Then point the script to the plantuml-stdlib code base:

bash ./check-sources-for-update.sh /path/to/plantuml-stdlib/

This will then output whether each project has an update available or not.

update_sources.sh

To use this script, make sure there is an up-to-date version of the plantuml-stdlib git repository locally.

The sources.config file is also needed.

Next point the script to the plantuml-stdlib code base:

bash ./update_sources.sh /path/to/plantuml-stdlib/ /path/to/repos/ /path/to/sources.config

This will then checkout or update all the other project git repositories and copy all the relevant files from those projects into the plantuml-stdlib code base. It does this based on information from the config file.

The changes in plantuml-stdlib can then be seen using git status, added using git add. comitted with git commit, etc.

Adding a new library

As it might not be clear, I also created a "simple" tutorial explaining how to add an icon library.