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Make getting started friendly
Currently neither the readme nor pony-stable provide/explain a way to initialise a project.
I had to look at other repos and projects in pony to find how to structure the bundle.json. It's not explained in the readme how to get started.
A common solution is to add an init command to pony-stable to initialise the config file as seen in other package managers.
Running, stable add will create the required bundle.json. What would an init command do?
Create a base bundle.json with no deps presumably.
I was confused by the content of the help command. It says to Invoke in a working directory containing a bundle.json but none of the commands mention the ability to create bundle.json. Perhaps the add command could mention that it will create the bundle.json if needed?
> stable help
Usage: stable COMMAND [...]
A simple dependency manager for the Pony language.
Invoke in a working directory containing a bundle.json.
Commands:
help - Print this message
version - Print version information
fetch - Fetch/update the deps for this bundle
env - Execute the following shell command inside an environment
with PONYPATH set to include deps directories. For example,
`stable env ponyc myproject`
add - Add a new dependency. For exemple,
`stable add github jemc/pony-inspect
@SeanTAllen sure, how would you recommend changing it, something like:
Invoke in a working directory containing a bundle.json.
->
Invoke in a working directory containing a bundle.json.
Alternatively, adding a dependency will create a
bundle.json containing the dependency in the directory.
I would also love to see the initialization command. it would be cool to set the package version and name In bundle.json on init step (with user prompt)
