Hello everyone. I am trying to build CLI tool for my project . Is there any existing library/package in the Julia ecosystem which I can use.

Thanks @onetonfoot for pointing out this package. The example link mentioned in the README ( https://github.com/comonicon/Comonicon.jl/blob/master/example/Ion ) doesn’t seem to work. Is there any other source where there are more examples on Comonicon ?

maybe Fire.jl can help you here?

Is Fire.jl still actively maintained. The last activity on the repo 8 months ago I guess. I wanted to try it out but couldn’t decide as I thought that it’s no longer maintained.

Creating CLI tools in Julia

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onetonfoot July 23, 2021, 1:50am 4

I’m afraid the docs are a little sparse, maybe this link will help. However, it was some time ago since I tried this so I’m not sure it will still work

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Creating CLI tools in Julia

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