Zond

Zond (Russian: Зонд, lit. 'probe') was the name given to two distinct series of Soviet robotic spacecraft launched between 1964 and 1970. The first series, based on the 3MV planetary probe, was intended to gather information about nearby planets. The second series of test spacecraft was intended as a precursor to remote-controlled robotic circumlunar loop flights, using a stripped-down variant of Soyuz spacecraft, consisting of the service and descent modules, but lacking the orbital module. Two tortoises and other lifeforms aboard Zond 5 were the first terrestrial organisms to travel around the Moon and return to Earth.

In this context, Zond is a static gemini capsule generator. Think static site generator like Hugo or Jekyll but for Project Gemini.

Building

cargo build --release

If desired, a release distribution can then be generated which includes the following:

• Shell completions for bash, fish, powershell and zsh
• Unix man pages
• Documentation
• Translations

cargo build --release --features=bootstrap

This will create a second binary named bootstrap which can then be used to either install the files directly into the filesystem or install everything into a staging directory, ready for creating a distribution package. For details, run the bootstrap binary with the --help option.

Usage

For full usage information, see the documents in the doc/ subdirectory of the source repository. Short help can also be had via the --help or -h options passed to the main command or any subcommand, or by viewing one of the generated Unix manual pages.