Hello Guilers,
Following a conversation on #guile about making it easier to generate
boilerplate for new Guile projects and reduce the need to snarf and/or
monkey type build system configs from other projects, I would like to
throw out an idea for a new guild subcommand:
guild init foo --license=gpl3+ --author="Lemme Tweakit <le...@gnu.org>"
This could create the following skeleton files:
foo/COPYING
foo/README
foo/configure.ac
foo/Makefile.am
foo/pre-inst-env.in
foo/foo.scm
foo/foo/config.scm.in
foo/tests/foo.scm
foo/doc/foo.texi
These files cover the basic necessities for a good source tree:
License and copyright information, introductory text, build system,
manual, base module, configuration module, test suite, and
pre-installation environment. The exact set of files and their
default contents should be adjusted to fit community best practices.
I modeled this possible skeleton directory on Guix, because Guix is
great. :)
What do you all think? More importantly, would anyone like to
implement this?
Happy hacking,
--
David Thompson
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