Beam

I've been copying and pasting my own scripts around like a chump, and it's time I grew up. Hello.

I don't expect anyone other than myself to ever care about any of this. I'm sure you've already got your own weird collection of scripts.

Beginnings of Other Projects

I'm also using beam as a jumping point for any other projects of mine, as something of an incubator.

Li'l Configure

A program that generates a ./configure script that generates a ./config.status script that generates a Makefile along with any other configurable files.

It'll probably read a yaml file, but I'm nowhere near ready to start thinking about that part yet.

Seems pretty... recursive?

Yeah. Here's how I think about it:

I'm writing an application.
The application will read a config file.
The application will generate the ./configure script based on what it finds in the config file.
./configure will read command-line arguments and will create a custom ./config.status file.
While ./config.status will be a script, it will be a very simple one that does little more than run some static cat <<\EOF calls (to a Makefile at the very least).

So the ./configure shell script may need to be complicated, but it won't need to generate anything dynamic in ./config.status.

And, honestly, automating the generation of ./configure is easier than writing it from scratch, since complicated shell scripts can necessitate a lot of repeating oneself. This way, I can minimize repetition, and I can even automate the ordering of such as function definitions.

GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)

This is a GPLv3 project. If you don't know what it means, it means that you can copy, distribute, and modify anything and everything here, but you have to preserve headers and licensing. Pretty standard stuff.

What sets this license apart from others is that, if your project includes any of my code, then your project must in turn be released under the GPLv3.

For more information, see COPYING.

Commit emoji

I've been trying to get into the habit of using emoji in my git commits. Here's my key:

Character	Name	Use
⚡️	`:zap:`	Initial commit
✅	`:white_check_mark:`	Add feature/test
🚧	`:construction:`	Add failing (skipped) test
🎨	`:art:`	Refactor tests
💪	`:muscle:`	Refactor (or "flex") code
📚	`:books:`	Add data (i.e. without tests)
🙈	`:see_no_evil:`	Add untested script code
💚	`:green_heart:`	Mess with continuous integration
🏠	`:house:`	Mess with repository structure
📝	`:memo:`	Write documentation
🔪	`:hocho:`	Remove feature/test

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