Project usecase?

[pfalcon]

Glad to see this project being worked on (a release 15 days ago, etc.) Also, the fact that it's maintained by a member of CPython/pypa Github organizations gives some hopes. But star count of the project (12 at this time) doesn't give much hopes. What's the usecase behind maintaining this project? What are the aims/roadmap of it?

Thanks.

(As a background, I'm trying to understand why someone would hack on this particular project, and not on some another fork of the original pycoreutils projects, or just another similar project.)

[jaraco]

I originally adopted this project when I started using xonsh on Windows and found I didn't have the coreutils I wanted.

I myself would have hacked on pycoreutils, but I suspect I couldn't gain any traction on it. Perhaps I couldn't contact the project maintainer. I don't recall for sure.

I spent an undue amount of energy working on a fix for Python 3.9 to make uname in this project viable.

In any case, I'd really rather not see another fork. This project gets so little investment, I'd hate to see the only interest in it divided into another project.

Please consider contributing to this project. I'm eager to accept contributions and make frequent releases. I'd even be happy to share maintenance on the project with anyone sufficiently interested.

xonsh is considering adopting this project for its Windows users, so that may add some credibility to the project.

Also, if there's another project that has more traction than this one, I'm open to retiring this in favor of another.

[pfalcon]

Thanks for the detailed response, makes sense.

(And my remote interest would be to make coreutils-like tools work with my minimalist Python dialect, Pycopy. Due to "minimalism" aim, it would probably need to be a downstream fork. But that's again "future wishful thinking", as I'm working on more priority things now. But cmdix looks like a good project to start with, thanks.)