Hi,

I would like some options for a library, preferably json configurable, that helps with command line tool development. Doesn't have to be in D specifically.


Currently I am using using std.getopt. I had a search in the DUB repos and in github but didn't really find anything appealing.

ty ss <3

On 2016-08-15 09:29, UDW wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like some options for a library, preferably json configurable,
> that helps with command line tool development. Doesn't have to be in D
> specifically.
>
>
> Currently I am using using std.getopt. I had a search in the DUB repos
> and in github but didn't really find anything appealing.

I think you need to be a bit more specific on what you need.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 09:26:21 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-08-15 09:29, UDW wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like some options for a library, preferably json configurable,
>> that helps with command line tool development. Doesn't have to be in D
>> specifically.
>>
>>
>> Currently I am using using std.getopt. I had a search in the DUB repos
>> and in github but didn't really find anything appealing.
>
> I think you need to be a bit more specific on what you need.


Are you trying to parse arguments?
There's a lot of good stuff for it already:

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_getopt.html
https://code.dlang.org/packages/darg
https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/08/05/ae-utils-funopt/


For configuration files:

https://code.dlang.org/packages/onyx-config
https://code.dlang.org/packages/inid
https://code.dlang.org/packages/yamkeys
https://code.dlang.org/packages/runtimer
https://code.dlang.org/packages/variantconfig

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 10:48:11 UTC, Seb wrote:

> Are you trying to parse arguments?
> There's a lot of good stuff for it already:
>
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_getopt.html
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/darg
> https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/08/05/ae-utils-funopt/
>
>
> For configuration files:
>
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/onyx-config
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/inid
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/yamkeys
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/runtimer
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/variantconfig

Thanks for the suggestions Seb,
https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/08/05/ae-utils-funopt/
looks very nice :).

I just thought there would be a standard library, stdclib, phobos or otherwise for making CLI tools that would generate sub-commands, options, help text and handle input for it all. Unfortunately my gumby searching didn't find much yesterday. Sort of like this
https://github.com/tj/commander.js
which I found after a bit more searching.

ty again

On Tuesday, 16 August 2016 at 01:23:16 UTC, UDW wrote:
> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 10:48:11 UTC, Seb wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
> Thanks for the suggestions Seb,
> https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/08/05/ae-utils-funopt/
> looks very nice :).
>
> I just thought there would be a standard library, stdclib, phobos or otherwise for making CLI tools that would generate sub-commands, options, help text and handle input for it all. Unfortunately my gumby searching didn't find much yesterday. Sort of like this
> https://github.com/tj/commander.js
> which I found after a bit more searching.
>
> ty again

Have you had a detailed look at std.getopt?
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_getopt.html

That's very similar to commander.js ;-)

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 10:48:11 UTC, Seb wrote:
>
> Are you trying to parse arguments?
> There's a lot of good stuff for it already:
>
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_getopt.html
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/darg
> https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/08/05/ae-utils-funopt/
>
>
> For configuration files:
>
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/onyx-config
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/inid
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/yamkeys
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/runtimer
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/variantconfig

Seb how in the heck do you know about all these libraries, geeze.

On 2016-08-16 04:29, Jonathan Marler wrote:

> Seb how in the heck do you know about all these libraries, geeze.

Currently Dub has so few libraries that it's possible to manually scan the list.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 07:29:58 UTC, UDW wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like some options for a library, preferably json configurable, that helps with command line tool development. Doesn't have to be in D specifically.
>

I am using:
http://code.dlang.org/packages/docopt

It's not really json configurable, but that shouldn't be to complex to implement yourself.

On Tuesday, 16 August 2016 at 06:27:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-08-16 04:29, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>
>> Seb how in the heck do you know about all these libraries, geeze.
>
> Currently Dub has so few libraries that it's possible to manually scan the list.

Manual work? O_o
Just open code.dlang.org and either hit CTRL-F or use the search bar (Martin added elastic search two months ago) as the packages usually have a very low PageRank.

Furthermore the knowledge that the "big/old" players in the D community (CyberShadow, Adam Ruppe, ...) have their own library solution for everything, helps in finding what one is searching for.

Additionally there are quite a few discussions about (Phobos) packages, for example a recent one is here: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ng7iiq$1gnv$1@digitalmars.com?page=1
(the most interesting finding in there is that std.getopt has nothing to do with the getopt program)

So no dark magic involved ;-)

On 2016-08-16 11:37, Seb wrote:

> Manual work? O_o
> Just open code.dlang.org and either hit CTRL-F or use the search bar
> (Martin added elastic search two months ago) as the packages usually
> have a very low PageRank.

It's a bit problematic when you don't know what to search for. Not all projects have a descriptive name ;)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg