Ask HN: CPAN, npm, PyPi, rubygems, and... the shell?
I've a hobby project which I don't know if it makes any sense.
Most people I talk with tell me I'm wrong, but I still use this project when I want to have some fun and relax coding.
Here is a working draft of where I want to go with this:
http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=264198
I want to think how we could use github as a backend, for the public "csan" or whatever is the final name, even if the framework itself should work offline too, or from other "repositories"... "spkg" should take multiple sources... local trees, http trees, rsync, git origins, who know what...
By now it generates documentation from the comments (with markdown and a pre/post parser) with a tool (sdoc) to query and display the "doc-comments" of a code base.
I want to add more "development helpers" to "package->publish" bash code.
The screenshot is from a clean draft, The real s::core now has many more modules :)
My question to HN is:
Should I continue with this project? or really nobody could use it as many people tells me?
There are many reasons I've hear...
"Shell scripts are not modular" "Writting portable shell is very hard" "http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashWeaknesses" etc...