Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bart Verhagen <barrie.verha...@gmail.com> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, barrie.verha...@gmail.com
* Package name : exec-helper Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Bart Verhagen <barrie.verha...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/exec-helper/source * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Or How To Get Your Coffee In Peace: A meta-wrapper for executing tasks on the command line Exec-helper improves the main bottleneck in your development workflow: you. It does this by: * Reducing the number of keystrokes required to execute the same command over and over again * Chaining multiple commands All without sacrificing (much) flexibility or repeating useless work. If this, together with getting coffee in peace is not a sufficient rationale for you, the main advantages of exec-helper over (simple) scripts or plain command line commands are: * Easy permutation of multiple execution parameters (so-called patterns in exec-helper). * Easy selection of a subset of execution parameters. * Improved DRY: execution parameters are only changed on one spot, in stead of everywhere in your command line. * Technology-agnostic approach: e.g. running the exec-helper build can build a C++ project in one directory structure and a JAVA project in another. * Enables a self-documented workflow. * Out of the box support for multi-valued options and default values. * Searches for a suitable configuration in its parent folders. * Fast to type using the eh alias * Easy to find and/or list available commands using the --help option. * Easy extensible with your own, first-class citizen, plugins. * Automatic autocompletion of commands and patterns I am the maintainer of this tool. It turned out to be way more useful than I ever expected it to be. Currently I use it a lot and would like to share this with the rest of the world. Adoption of the tool is slowly growing. Currently I maintain a 'packaging repository' for it (https://github.com/exec-helper/package) in which Debian is supported since 2017. In the meantime this effort evolved into pre-compiled packages that ought to be downloaded and installed manually. Now that more and more people are using it, I would like to more explicitly share this tool with the community and provide a more convenient way to install this tool for Debian users. My proposal is to maintain the package myself on a best-effort basis. There is no need for any co-maintainers or sponsors, although all advice on improving the (current) packaging approach is much appreciated.
