Feature Request: Git-style CLI + plugin interface

[wandernauta]

I'd like Hyde to take Git/webgen style commands as well, e.g. hyde.py init and hyde.py serve.

This could also be a beginning of a plugin system - hyde.py foo could try to run a script called foo.py in a plugins directory inside the main Hyde directory.

[navilan]

I'd like that feature as well. Sucks typing -i, -g etc. Maybe creating a default fab file would be the quickest way to solve this. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/01/moving-from-django-to-hyde/

[wandernauta]

Using fabfiles would add an additional dependency on Fabric (which in turn depends on PyCrypto and so on). I'm afraid it might be considered overkill. Changing

if len(args):
    parser.error("Unexpected arguments encountered.")

to

if len(args):
    if (args[0] == 'serve'):
        options.webserve = True
    else:
        findplugin(args[0]).run(args)
    # ...

might do the trick as well, right?

[navilan]

Agreed.

[wandernauta]

Would the following work?

if len(args):
    if (args[0] in ('generate', 'g', 'gen')):
        options.generate = True
    elif (args[0] in ('serve', 'w', 'srv')):
        options.webserve = True
    elif (args[0] in ('init', 'create', 'i')): # 'Create' seems to be what Webgen calls it
        options.init = True
    elif (os.path.isfile(PROG_ROOT + os.sep + "plugins" + os.sep + args[0] + ".py")):
        # Plugin-running code here
        pass
    else:
        parser.error("Unexpected arguments encountered.")

[navilan]

Since every option to hyde is a subcommand, I would rather have something like:

command = load_command(args[0]) if not command: # handle bad command command.execute(args[1:])

Using something like http://code.google.com/p/argparse/ might also make this simpler.

[wandernauta]

Great idea :D