CLI WG newsletter #3

[killercup]

CLI Newsletter issue #3

Hello and welcome to the third issue of the CLI working group newsletter!

The CLI WG’s goal is to make writing cross-platform, well-tested, modern command line applications in Rust frictionless.

In case you missed it: In our last issue we featured the results of our survey.

Releases

• human-panic, a crate to make the output generated by panic!() nicer, was created and published by @yoshuawuyts, @spacekookie, and @killercup
• @epage continued work on stager

Active topics

• Packaging
  • meeting 2018-05-03 at 6pm UTC on https://gitter.im/crate-ci/general
• Config file management
  • Some efforts are started in confy
• CLI testing
  • assert_cli API revamp is happening

Noteworthy crates

This week, we wanted to add a section to feature some crates that people might be interested in. The survey showed that a lot of people indified some gaps in the ecosystem for which there are already some good crates.

This week is about two crates for adding interactivity to your CLI. This is especially interesting because the CLI WG is currently not focussing on that aspect at all (we try to stabilize other fundamental things).

• http://docs.rs/indicatif is a great library to add progress indication
• https://docs.rs/dialoguer has a good set of tools for getting input fromt the user, e.g., checkboxes or password fields

Join in!

We keep track of open discussion in this repo and you are very welcome to join us on Gitter to chat about what you want

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[sanxiyn]

It seems that “Packaging” link is wrong. (It goes to “Testing” instead.)

[killercup]

Thanks! That’s what I get for typing issue numbers manually I guess

[system]

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