[proposal] ffizer as project generator

[davidB]

Hi,

As the author of ffizer (a tool to create project from template), I would like to propose a collaboration.

• ffizer can be used as cli or as lib (not documented), so it could be integrated into an amethyst-branded cli.
• ffizer can define template as composition of templates, so it ease reuse and share of template to create new one.
• it is a general purpose "folder content generator", but it's main usage is for project template (I use to bootstrap python project for data-science, rust crates (cli, lib))

One of the main planned feature is to be able to update project (show diff, replace file,...). I'm open to any request, improvement to match your use cases.

[davidB]

form discord #tools

dwayne20/07/2019
the ffizer crate is a lib (src/lib.rs) that generate a bin (from src/main.rs). I'll take a look a sheep.

happens20/07/2019
Ah that's already very close to what we need then, just a different file/folder setup. I'll have a look at how your CLI uses your lib internally later. Thanks for bringing this up!

[davidB]

I forked the template a did some change to show some of the possibility of ffizer (vs git clone):

davidB@1cae401

• define project name as variables
• generate gitignore from gitignore.io service
• allow user to select a license
• configure the default features (metal or vulkan) based on local OS
• doesn't include .git folder, COPYING, README from template repository into the generated project

I recorded a demo of the usage:

PS: since I open this ticket I did some improvement (and release) into ffizer.

[happenslol]

That looks awesome! I'll have a look tomorrow and see how we could integrate this into our toolchain. Thanks for the work!