Project outline

[keilmillerjr]

Here's a project outline I have in mind. Will submit pull requests. Let me know what you think, and we can edit this outline.

• Use install command within makefile install target
• Provide feedback within makefile install and uninstall targets
• Move help to man file
• Create AUR package
  • https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/endlines
• Create Ubuntu package
• Create brew package
• GitHub Actions CI/CD to deploy to package repositories on release
• Remove binaries from repository
  • Compile time of endlines is almost instant. I see no benefit of providing a binary. If you wish to still provide a binary, it could be compiled within a GitHub action and stored as an artifact.

[keilmillerjr]

First PR: #20

[keilmillerjr]

Bueller? @mdolidon

[keilmillerjr]

Crickets...

[keilmillerjr]

Almost a year later with zero feedback. Is this project abandoned? Should I continue and point all sources to fork?

[mdolidon]

Hello. Yes due to personal circumstances I've had to downsize a lot of what I'd been doing, and haven't logged on Github for, what, maybe a year and a half.
I thank you for your proposal. Additions are welcome, like the AUR package, or a man page. However I would not wish things to be moved away. I would like to keep help accessible from the executable and the (very small, thus non-problematic) binaries inside Git, for the sake of simplicity.

[keilmillerjr]

Hello. Yes due to personal circumstances I've had to downsize a lot of what I'd been doing, and haven't logged on Github for, what, maybe a year and a half. I thank you for your proposal. Additions are welcome, like the AUR package, or a man page. However I would not wish things to be moved away. I would like to keep help accessible from the executable and the (very small, thus non-problematic) binaries inside Git, for the sake of simplicity.

I hope all is well. I ended up taking a hiatus as well. Sometimes life can get overbearing.

FHS recommends using man pages. Currently, endlines just outputs a text blob for help. I don't see why you couldn't have endlines open the man page.

Using CI would eliminate the need to have binaries inside a git package. It shouldn't be stored there and is poor practice. Your source code can be compiled automatically on a tagged release and stored as an artifact. Users can then download it that way, or you can create a distribution package that installs the bin. This simplifies further development while assuring users there is no funny business going on with the binaries.