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yonaskolb / Mint

A package manager that installs and runs executable Swift packages
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When multiple executables are found, Mint should list them before asking which one to run #143

Closed guillaumealgis closed 4 years ago

guillaumealgis commented 5 years ago

When running a package with multiple executable targets for the first time, Mint will ask the user which executable it should run :

❯ mint run IBDecodable/IBLinter
🌱  Finding latest version of IBLinter
🌱  Cloning IBLinter 0.4.16
🌱  Resolving package
🌱  Building package
🌱  Installed IBLinter 0.4.16
There are multiple executables, which one would you like to run?

The issue here is that the user has no idea what it is expected of him/her.

I think Mint should list the executable when asking this question. I've seen on some CLI tools list such choices with something like :

❯ mint run IBDecodable/IBLinter
🌱  Finding latest version of IBLinter
🌱  Cloning IBLinter 0.4.16
🌱  Resolving package
🌱  Building package
🌱  Installed IBLinter 0.4.16
There are multiple executables, which one would you like to run?
[1] iblinter
[2] iblinter-tools

And then either responding with the executable name or its number in the list should allow the process to continue.

Note that it's not a very serious issue, as merely pressing the enter key lists the executables and it then become fairly obvious what is expected of the user.

I just think it could be a nice improvement :)

yonaskolb commented 4 years ago

Yes agree. I'm pretty sure that used to be the behaviour, so perhaps it's a regression

yonaskolb commented 4 years ago

Released in 0.13.0