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>We have a whole working group this year focused on making the experience of writing CLIs awesome Can you explain what you mean by this? Something like the peo

by vram22 8y ago

>We have a whole working group this year focused on making the experience of writing CLIs awesome Can you explain what you mean by this? Something like the people are going to focus on language and library features that help with writing CLIs? Or something else? Asking because CLIs are one of my interests.

isaacaggrey 8y ago
Here is the Rust CLI working group announcement: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-cli-working-group/6872 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-cli-working... Rust has different community working groups that focus on improving the Rust ecosystem in different ways this year: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-2018-domain-working-groups/6737 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-2018-domain...
- vram22 8y ago
  Thank you, will take a look.
epage 8y ago
We've tried to dig into various problematic areas of writing CLIs in Rust [0], worked to create or improve libraries [1], and are working on writing a "book" for Rust-based CLIs [2]. You can reach out to us on gitter [3]. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues [1]: https://github.com/rust-clique/ https://github.com/rust-clique/ and https://github.com/assert-rs/ https://github.com/assert-rs/ [2]: https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/cli-wg/index.html https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/cli-wg/index.html [3]: https://gitter.im/rust-lang/WG-CLI https://gitter.im/rust-lang/WG-CLI The areas we're trying to finish up for Rust 2018 Edition: - Get clap (arg parsing) to 3.0 [4] - Get assert_cmd [5] / assert_fs [6] to 1.0 - Finish work on man-page generation [7] - Make it easier to package binaries [8] and document the CI for it [9] [4]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/41 https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/41 [5]: https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_cmd/ https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_cmd/ [6]: https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_fs https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_fs [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/38 https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/38 [8]: https://github.com/crate-ci/cargo-tarball https://github.com/crate-ci/cargo-tarball [9]: https://github.com/crate-ci/crate-ci.github.io https://github.com/crate-ci/crate-ci.github.io
- vram22 8y ago
  Thanks for the detailed answer. Will check out some of those links.

by vram22 8y ago

isaacaggrey 8y ago

Here is the Rust CLI working group announcement: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-cli-working-group/6872 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-cli-working... Rust has different community working groups that focus on improving the Rust ecosystem in different ways this year: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-2018-domain-working-groups/6737 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-2018-domain...

vram22 8y ago
Thank you, will take a look.

epage 8y ago

We've tried to dig into various problematic areas of writing CLIs in Rust [0], worked to create or improve libraries [1], and are working on writing a "book" for Rust-based CLIs [2]. You can reach out to us on gitter [3]. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues [1]: https://github.com/rust-clique/ https://github.com/rust-clique/ and https://github.com/assert-rs/ https://github.com/assert-rs/ [2]: https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/cli-wg/index.html https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/cli-wg/index.html [3]: https://gitter.im/rust-lang/WG-CLI https://gitter.im/rust-lang/WG-CLI The areas we're trying to finish up for Rust 2018 Edition: - Get clap (arg parsing) to 3.0 [4] - Get assert_cmd [5] / assert_fs [6] to 1.0 - Finish work on man-page generation [7] - Make it easier to package binaries [8] and document the CI for it [9] [4]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/41 https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/41 [5]: https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_cmd/ https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_cmd/ [6]: https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_fs https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_fs [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/38 https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/38 [8]: https://github.com/crate-ci/cargo-tarball https://github.com/crate-ci/cargo-tarball [9]: https://github.com/crate-ci/crate-ci.github.io https://github.com/crate-ci/crate-ci.github.io

vram22 8y ago
Thanks for the detailed answer. Will check out some of those links.