​​WG-CLI: Rust All Hands 2019 Topics

​​Topic: State of the CLIQuE

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​​Audience
​​WG-CLI and everyone interested
​​When
​​Monday, 15:00-17:00
​​Where
​​Snow
​​Meeting Style
​​Discussion, followed by brainstorming
​​Deliverables
  • ​​Document describing progress on the key goals from 2018
  • ​​Rough notes from experience reports and brainstorming session
  • ​​List of possible concrete next steps for the WG to work on
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​​Agenda

  • ​​Intro (15min)
  • ​​What did we work on? (15min)
  • ​​CLAiR (CLI book)
  • ​​clap
  • ​​man pages
  • ​​maintenance of clap
  • ​​configuration file management
  • ​​quiCLI
  • ​​…
  • ​​State of the ecosystem (30 minutes)
  • ​​Work on the clap​ vision (60 minutes)
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​​Notes

  • ​​Merge CLAiR PRs!
  • ​​Blocked on clap 3
  • ​​man page generation
  • ​​clap is monolithic
  • ​​Talk about thunder
  • ​​unhappy with API
  • ​​rewrite/restructure
  • ​​Testing is really good!
  • ​​assert_cli​ as 1.0​ version including various testing crates
  • ​​write blog posts! predicates is awesome!
  • ​​Configuration management
  • ​​confy has been used in prod
  • ​​is assumed to be a “simple” tool right now
  • ​​load/store config from OS-specific files works
  • ​​there was no need to make it compatible with more complicated use cases so far
  • ​​plans/considerations
  • ​​make nested structures nice/work
  • ​​configurable configuration file format
  • ​​setups with multiple configurations
  • ​​e.g. layering of config files/defaults
  • ​​yosh: out of scope, hard to get right in a general case
  • ​​aaron: layering is important