mschauer / skeleton.jl

Julia script for creating new packages quickly.

skeleton.jl

Julia script for creating new packages quickly. Needs at least Julia version v0.7-beta.

Installation

This is not a package, just a script. Clone from the repository, eg

git clone https://github.com/tpapp/skeleton.jl.git

Usage

From a shell,

julia path/to/skeleton.jl destination/directory [template]

Then

1. files in template will be copied recursively, with various substitutions which are in the source code as replacements.

2. A git repo is initialized.

If the destination directory exists, the script aborts.

After this, you probably want to pkg> dev destination/directory in Julia, and add your Github repository as a remote.

Prerequisites

For the default template, you need to set the git configuration variables user.name, user.email, and github.user.

Design

KISS: does nothing more than substitute strings into templates. For me, this covers 99% of the use cases; the rest I edit manually.

At this point, I have no intention of making this into a package, let alone registering it.

Templates replace the following in files and filenames:

|---------------|--------------------------------------------------| | {UUID} | a randomly generated UUID1 | | {PKGNAME} | name of the package, first command line argument | | {GHUSER} | git config --get github.user | | {USERNAME} | git config --get user.name | | {USEREMAIL} | git config --get user.email |