moss: Discuss a CLI

[livingsilver94]

We need a sane CLI for moss. Let's talk about subcommands and flags:

moss
├── repository
│   ├── add (ra)     Adds a new repository.
│   │   ├── <name>
│   │   └── <url>
│   └── remove (rr)  Removes a repository.
│       └── <name>
└── package
    ├── install (it. Or in?)  Installs package(s) from a file path or by name in the repo.
    │   ├── <packagename> ...
    │   └── --reinstall
    ├── remove (rm)           Removes package(s).
    │   └── <packagename> ...
    ├── update (up)           Updates the installed packages.
    └── search (sr)           Searches packages by name and summary.
        └── <keyword> ...
# Globals
├── -D, --directory  Overrides the system root.
├── -h, --help.      Shows help and quits. Valid for subcommand helps too.
└── --version        Prints moss version and quits.

(Tree generator for fast layout).

[ermo]

So, first off:

We have discussed having a more "rigid" structure, that involves having a "subject verb" form like moss repository add, moss repository remove, where the subject controls which verbs are accessible.

The more common operations could then be aliased with suitable aliases.

[livingsilver94]

Updated.

[ermo]

We also had a rather long discussion about moss sync, in place of moss update. Currently, moss sync will sync the packages to the configured + enabled repos and moss sync -u will update the configured + enabled repos, then sync the system state to any new versions.

This is because we would like to be able to sync to textual represenations of system-model files (Cargo.lock-like in their nature).

So in this model, this would be the equivalent to something like:

moss repository update && moss package sync