Collin

Collin is a template/skeleton for creating interactive/stateful command-line applications.

Why Collin?

clint was already taken

Why not Click or Argh?

AFAIK, the regular CLI-building libraries do not provide interactive/stateful options, without implementing some type of extra storage-mechanism

Interactive/Stateful

Collin can hold data within the programming data-structures (variables, etc.) for the duration of the program. You no longer need a database or other storage-mechanism

Extendable/Skeleton/Template/Your-lang

Collin is very much a template/skeleton. The code is relatively simple for all types of programmers (novice included) and can be extended to just about any other language that has some command-line support

Support

Collin currently supports:

• Python3
• Python2 (with a few adjustments to the Python3 code)
• [add your language to this document]

Usage

1. Save menu.py and functions.py in any folder
2. Open folder in the CLI of your choosing
3. Run:

python menu.py

Contributing

General:

1. Fork the repo
2. Make your changes/additions
3. Open a Pull Request

Adding another language

1. Create a folder specifying your desired language eg. Ruby, Haskell
2. Use the basic structure of menu.[lang] and functions.[lang] within newly created folder
3. If your language has multiple versions eg. Python2 and Python3 then specify the version in the folder-name

Licensing

This project is licensed under the Unlicense, as it is just a template. You can therefore re-license any projects that use Collin under their own licenses (MIT/Apache/BSD/GPL3/etc.)