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> simple

> 17k lines of shell script

those two phrases don't belong together... to think about this, "17k lines" and "shell script" should not be used together either.

Also, you are a bit light on tests.. there only seems to be a single trivial one, which seems way too low for a codebase this size.

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This is why Simplenetes is built with Space.sh [1], a tool to build shell script applications.

About the tests, can't disagree with you, they will come.

[1] https://github.com/space-sh/space

First time I'm hearing of space also. It looks quite impressive, surprised to see no stars

Thanks!

We just moved Space.sh from GitLab to GitHub (hurts in my heart, but yeah community is on GitHub).

Also we are lousy at promoting our stuff, maybe April 1st is not the best day to do this either...

It's OK, I'm sure more stars will start appearing in Space as visibility improves :)

> community is on GitHub

I'm surprised when people say this. I thought communities were only around repos.

It's easier to get contributors and responses when most people already have github accounts. When not many habe have gitlab, it adds some friction to contributing and a lot won't bother

Fair enough. I'm surprised they don't have a Sign In With GitHub button :D

You are hearing of space.sh for the first because it is written by the same authors who wrote this project.

i dunno. autotools is hairy, but it also solved some incredibly hairy problems over an enormous breadth for a very long time in a very reliable manner.

portability across all the different unices with their weird c compilers and differing libcs that actually worked out of the box every time was a gargantuan task.

> those two phrases don't belong together

I assumed it was tongue-in-cheek?

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