Open shadowspawn opened 2 years ago
For interest, minimist appears unmaintained at the moment. The GitHub source repo has been deleted.
Yes, sadly substack deleted all their github repos. If @emilbayes is willing to npm owner add
me, i'd be happy to reconstruct the repo and continue to maintain it.
This fork has been active this year: https://github.com/meszaros-lajos-gyorgy/minimist-lite
I've got the original git history up to v1.2.0 in 2015; a link to a repo that has commits through March 2022 would be appreciated :-)
To be clear, I was pointing out an active fork by people who have already shown an interest and investment in maintaining Minimist, and might still be very interested. (Not offering an up-to-date source for git history.)
@ljharb I can :)
@emilbayes thanks! If you have them, can you push the commits somewhere public so i can grab them?
Hi @emilbayes !
I am also willing and able to be a steward of Minimist. I maintain Commander and very familiar with CLI parsing, and have been keeping an eye on Minimist for the last couple of years for interest. I offered an explanation on one issue (not in wayback so second-hand reference): https://github.com/meszaros-lajos-gyorgy/minimist-lite/issues/2
minimist is now covered: https://twitter.com/ljharb/status/1579610392414007299
I was thinking about what to consult for command-line parsing behaviours which people using the Node.js eco-system are likely to encounter.
The two specifications I am aware of are:
With reference implementations for C programs:
In Javascript world, we can look at npm dependencies as one measure of usage. Packages with over 1000 dependents (on 2022-03-06):
For a second source for usage, this just came out: Census II of Free and Open Source Software — Application Libraries
In the top 500 npm packages as direct dependencies:
Across both measures, commander and yargs and minimist are the big 3 covering the majority of direct dependencies.