Say someone is developing a package, and wants to include some command line interface. What are current best practices / ways to do this? My motivation here is twofold - I am actively working on such a project, and also would like to contribute to Modern Julia Workflows (cf. this issue ). Ideally, t…

[image] kevbonham: Creating a CLI app in Julia See also the follow-up: [ANN] YAArguParser and GivEmXL

OK, given the lack of responses here, I suppose I will just make stuff up :stuck_out_tongue: In seriousness, I will take inspiration from the links above, plus two packages with CLIs from @fredrikekre , GitHub - fredrikekre/jlpkg: A command line interface (CLI) for Pkg, Julia's package manager. and G…

[image] kevbonham: @tecosaur I know you had thoughts expressed in one of those long threads or issues. I’m sure I’ll find it again, but if you want to reiterate here I wouldn’t mind :wink: Oh, I’ve just got my usual thoughts about it being nice to take advantage of user bin directories alread…

What are the current (late 2024) best practices for CLI development?

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Eben60 October 30, 2024, 7:02pm 2

See also the follow-up: [ANN] YAArguParser and GivEmXL

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What are the current (late 2024) best practices for CLI development?

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