Idea: An internal command for launcher related tasks

[jdevera]

The vision here is that it becomes easy to get started, and that some things that require deep uderstanding of the documentation do not anymore.

This is roughly what I imagine:

I download a binary called cola (brew install, go install, etc). This will not be my launcher, but it is useful as a starting point to build other launchers and to do maintenance tasks.

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I can then do this:

cola meta make-launcher --description "Foo Launcher" foo

This builds me a foo launcher.

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cola meta init-package --dropin --launcher foo PACKAGENAME

or

foo meta init-package --drop-in PACKAGENAME

And it creates a scaffold of a (optional drop-in) package in the right place for the given launcher or the launcher that is running if no other launcher given.

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foo meta build-package PACKAGEDIR

Will build the package zip in a manner that is compatible with the launcher (I learned the hard way that some forms of valid zip file make the launcher unhappy)

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foo meta check-package PACKAGEDIR

Lints the package: tells me if the manifest is correct, tells me if some of the binaries I have listed is not executable.

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Wilder dream:

• Something under foo meta can build the full web structure necessary to serve launcher updates and packages
• Something under foo meta can actually serve the contents

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Is there an appetite for changes like this in the project? I came to this from having created some custom scripts for this when I built my homelab launcher. They served their purpose but were not general enough to be transferred to other launchers, so when I built a second and third launcher, I ended up having to rebuild or do tedious manual work. It could help to make this a first-class citizen.

The reason why I suggest bundling everything under a single group is to avoid cluttering the whole top-level namespace with more internal commands (I already believe there are too many).

If you are interested, we can discuss design, and I'm happy to (slowly) work on this.