CLI WG Newsletter #3

[killercup]

Let's collect content for the third issue of this WG's newsletter here!

[yoshuawuyts]

• Maybe @epage has some updates to share on crate-ci?
• Also been seeing some really cool modules from Armin Ronacher / GetSentry. Perhaps worth sharing?
  • https://crates.io/crates/indicatif
  • https://docs.rs/dialoguer/0.1.0/dialoguer/
  • https://docs.rs/console/0.6.1/console/

[epage]

My main update is that I now have a prototype of stager. That won't be too exciting to people. It'll probably be more interesting when I get started on the actual tarballer. Things might be busy for me this week and next, so not sure how much progress I'll make atm.

[pickfire]

What about https://crates.io/crates/yansi? It looks like a good alternative to https://crates.io/crates/term-painter and https://crates.io/crates/colored which is able to display anything implementing Debug trait.

[killercup]

@epage Still super awesome! \o/

@yoshuawuyts ohhhh good idea! Let's add a "CLI Crates Best Of" section! In the survey, a lot of people asked for crates to be built that already exist in some form. We should promote some obvious choices!

…and terminal coloring doesn't have an obvious choice right now, sadly. As @pickfire illustrates, there are a bunch of crates out there. I'd personally not recommend one that doesn't also handle Windows. And we have a rather long discussion #15 about that :)

[spacekookie]

@killercup I'm expecting a kickass banner/ logo for "CLI Crates Best Of 2018" (it's like the Oscars, it's every year edition!)

[epage]

Should we start an issue for aggregating relevant CLI crates? I know some have come up in various issues but I don't remember where to find them all at this point.

[killercup]

@epage I fear we might end up with an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of an "awesome" repository if we do that ;)

@spacekookie damn! I had plans this week, you know?

[yoshuawuyts]

@killercup Think it's important to be careful with the phrasing though. Picking winners might rub people the wrong way — but sharing things we like might be well-received all around :D

[killercup]

@yoshuawuyts yep. I'd probably go with a "quotes from the communtiy/team" approach. For example: I know that wasm-pack uses indicatif to solve a problem (compiling wasm takes time). So, I'd ask the maintainers what they think of the crate and post that as a quote in the newsletter.

[epage]

@killercup

I fear we might end up with an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of an "awesome" repository if we do that ;)

My thought wasn't as much of a permanent list but a temporary list that we'd use to help guide your Crate of the Newsletter, identify holes, identify crates without a winner, crates for us to blitz, etc.

[killercup]

@epage added a section to https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/rust-cli-wg which should make it obvious this is meant as a temporary list :)

[epage]

Works for me