feat(cmd,cli): In-house CLI library to replace zig-cli #570
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This introduces a CLI library developed in my spare time.
Some features to highlight:
argv[1..]
), and returns a struct type specified by the caller, using normal fields to represent options, and subcommands as nested tagged unions.As a demo, this PR also adds some adjacent improvements to the cmd.zig code, such as removing the global variables, refactoring some of the help messages, and also happens to re-organize some of the options in certain ways that seemed slightly more logical.
There are more improvements that can be made to cmd.zig, in particular replacing much of
config.Cmd
with the newly-introduced option groups.The cli.zig code is not totally perfect - it is perhaps a bit more complicated than need be, and it's not super obvious at a glance how different parts of the code flow into each other. I intend to simplify and improve these things, but the actual API should remain relatively the same.