Config file and package tracking utility
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* Stowage
Needed information for generation:
- short option
- long option
- short description (for usage ouput)
- long description (for manpage output)
* Machine specific configuration
- Selection based on file name
- Config section selection based on pattern with machine name
- Possibly variable insertion and comment removal
3 years ago
* Option Parsing
Parsed from left to right.
** Types
- Short option
- Long option
- Argument to option
- Non-option parameter (default argument)
*** Short Option
'-' followed by short option character.
If option has required argument, directly after OR separated by white-space.
Optional argument must be directly after the option character.
Possible to write several short options after one '-',
if all (except last) do not have *required* or *optional* arguments.
*** Long Option
'--' followed by long option name.
If option has a required argument, directly after, separated by '=' OR white-space.
Optional argument must be directly after the option, separated by '='.
*** Non-option Parameter
Each parameter not starting with '-' and not a required argument of a previous option,
is a non-option parameter.
Each parameter after a '--' parameter is always interpreted as a non-option parameter.
* Examples
#+BEGIN_SRC shell-script
./stowage -Fals
./stowage -F -a -l -s
./stowage --file --add --pull --push
./stowage -r filename
./stowage -rfilename
./stowage --remove=filename
./stowage --remove filename
./stowage --remove filename other stuff
./stowage --remove filename -- other stuff
#+END_SRC
** Multiple of the same options
#+BEGIN_SRC shell-script
./stowage -e pattern1 -epattern2 --regexp=pattern3 --regexp pattern4
#+END_SRC
* TODO [24/38]
- [X] macros: add more EXPECT_
- [X] macros: print to stderr, add colors
- [X] suite: improve printing style
- [X] convert more tests from main()
- [X] suite: add time tracking
- [X] suite: print time info
- [X] suite: add mechanism for EXPECT_ macros to mark current test as failed
- [X] suite: print suite failed tests
- [X] argparser: after first non option, go into no-option mode. this should be a setting to enable (default off)
- [X] argparser: support '--' to go into non-option mode
- [X] argparser: add multi-option support, vectors!
- [X] argparser: support non-option arguments parsing + storing
- [X] argparser: non-option arguments, what error messages, when?
- [X] argparser: update tests to check non-option arguments
- [X] argparser: add addOption overloads
- [ ] argparser: generate usage string
- [ ] argparser: generate man page string
- [X] argparser: parse() function to return bool false if any error has occurred
- [ ] argparser: setting for failure behavior (usage/exit/usage+exit)
- [X] argparser: add proper tests for non-existent options
- [X] argparser: m_exitOnFirstError is implemented wrong in longOption, should also break in the main loop!
I think its fine in shortOption as it can parse multiple arguments
- [X] argparser: support optional arguments, if acceptvalue fails and arg is optional, increment index and try again
- [X] argparser: receives empty parameters (at least arguments), decide what to do with them. $ uname bla => uname: extra operand ‘bla’
- [X] argparser: dont use std::regex, just loop through characters and bail if unexpected
- [ ] argparser: support long option abbreviations, if they are not ambiguous
- [ ] argparser: support for single - long options
- [ ] argparser: check and set $value to $next before the if spaghetti to simplify, at least in longOption
- [X] system: add piping functionality, print result of previous command to stdin before execvp() ?
- [ ] system: output/error/status getter, automatically call exec if workload
- [ ] system: output/error getter, cut off last character if its "\n", as std::string already handles trailing \n
- [X] system: test with file descriptors captured in std::system
- [ ] system: write test cases
- [ ] system: fix bug: splitting on space needs to be escapable, ex: '\ ' or ' ' or " ", needs a lexer
- [ ] system: test if exec() can return a reference?
- [X] dotfile: add loop index to forEachDotfile
- [ ] dotfile: convert excludePaths and system directories matching to regex
- [ ] dotfile: add excludePaths (ignore file) config file functionality
https://systemcrafters.net/managing-your-dotfiles/using-gnu-stow/
https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.html#Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists
- [ ] dotfile: add system directories config file functionality