Setup scripts ignore failures

[hombit]

Both .initialize_new_project.sh and .setup_dev.sh ignore failures of individual commands, which is not helpful when something goes wrong. I discovered this when I created a new environment with Python 3.13, and pip install -e .[dev] failed silently while running .setup_dev.sh.

I believe that adding set -e as the first command in each file would help.

[mtauraso]

That would help, we probably have to set pipefail also.

There's a good resource on "unoffical strict mode" for bash here: http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/

My experience with deploying unofficial strict mode is that it generally makes the bash scripts more reliable, but there are a few bash-isms that need a little tweaking to work properly, e.g. sometimes you have a pipe in a subshell where it succeeding when one of the commands fails is correct behavior. You have to explicitly swallow the error in that case, which is normally a small change.

I'll give unofficial strict mode a shot on these two scripts and see what happens.