CLI tool development using comonicon

[eunos-1128]

Hi there,

I am planning to develop a CLI tool in Julia. I'm new to Julia, so I'm wondering if you could help me with some things I don't understand.

My requirements for the user interface are as follows

• Allow users to execute programs by entering command names and command line arguments from the shell without having to enter the Julia REPL (I know this is feasible).

• I want to allow users to use the API of this package from a Julia script, not just as a CLI tool.

From reading the documentation, it seems that the user must use julia <filename>.jl args to run the installed program, but I would like to be able to simply run it as <filename> args (without the extension) like entry_points function in python's setup.py .

Is it possible to achieve them using comonicon?

[Roger-luo]

yes, this is general to any scripting language. you can put a shebang and use chomod +x <script> at the script. But Comonicon will also do this for you upon installation of a CLI project.

[eunos-1128]

@Roger-luo

OK, I've made up my mind to adopt this package.

Thank you!