I think the demo gif isn't very good, because it doesn't illustrate what this tool can be actually useful for. Or do I just lack imagination?
I'll see if I can come up with a better one soon
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This seems mildly interesting but I'm not installing a bunch of Golang tools just to try it.
I've updated it to include binary assets on the releases :)
Might be an algo thing, might be a trigger happy "enhanced" user that doesn't like green accounts.
FWiW the comments look fine to me and I've just [vouch]'d each and every one .. if some one else or two does the same they should come back.
I appreciate it! I saw that was happening so I stopped replying. Long time listener, first time caller
Yeah, just prefer writing little cli tools in Python or something once the shell script gets too complex...
Sorta hate yaml drive config management and deployments sytems aka ansible, saltstack, etc; so ended up writing my own that's salt-like, but all python.
I really like python as well (definitely one of my weapons of choice for one-off scripts)
Cool project!
Would be nice to have one of those asciinema recordings to get a feel of how it works from the README :)
added :) great suggestion!
This seems mildly interesting but I'm not installing a bunch of Golang tools just to try it.
I very much agree! I figured if it had enough interest, we could work toward brew and other, better installation methods.
Can I reuse shef recipe in other shef recipe ?
Yeah, you can call anything within it. It might also be interesting to have common components that one can pull from.
Cool project!
Would be nice to have one of those asciinema recordings to get a feel of how it works from the README :)
oh interesting idea, I'll definitely check it out and see what I can add, thanks!
yaml sucks to work with as it is. i work with k8s day in and out. this to me seems like a bad idea taking away the programmability with a tightened structure. For beginners who can't write shell scripts well, this may seem promising. Cool concept though. just not very practical imo.
Valid! Also, is it weird I don't mind yaml? :P
I feel that raw code is simpler to work with, more flexible and more ubiquitous (at least for bash).
As I was developing Shef, I kept asking myself if just knocking out a bash script was easier than making a recipe in yaml. In a lot of ways, absolutely. But I kept coming back to the embedded user prompts and a few of the other features that add some nice benefits on top of bash scripting. But all in all, you raise valid points.