customise template instantiation

spdegabrielle commented 4 years ago

Extend raco new to support additional arguments to customise template instantiation e.g. renaming main.scrbl to $PACKAGE-NAME.scrbl

extension options:

'template variables' using e.g. scribble/text
Maybe the raco new(prev raco from-template) command could look for some optional .from-template.rkt code in the template, and if found, run it.
raco scaffold already has sophisticated facilities to generate code https://docs.racket-lang.org/scaffold/

Suggestions from @samth @greghendershott @sorawee on racket slack 17-Sep-2020

nixin72 commented 4 years ago

How about having prompts at the terminal to change different options? Something similar to when you run npm init and you change a bunch of settings for your project. Can add a -i flag to tell it when to interactively let you change certain things.

spdegabrielle commented 4 years ago

That is a great idea!

spdegabrielle commented 4 years ago

I think 'charterm' will be helpful for interactive prompt stuff.

nixin72 commented 4 years ago

Sounds good! I'm getting started on this now :+1:

nixin72 commented 4 years ago

After taking a very brief look at charterm, I think that'll be a little overkill for this honestly...

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