cracker

A rusty ui for exploring and starting tasks. Of course, blazingly fast.

Requirements

• rust-lang >= 1.81.0

Be sure to add $HOME/.cargo/bin/ to your environment PATH variable.

Supports:

• Linux
• *macOS
• *Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

* untested, should work.

Installation Methods

Install with cargo

If you haven't isntalled cargo yet, now's a good time. Follow the cargo install instructions here Then run from your terminal.

cargo install ck-cracker

Manual Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:lloydbond/cracker.git
cd cracker
cargo install --path .

Usage

  cd /path/to/Makefile
  ck

Enable Log messages

Log messages are limited for as the tool reaches a 1.0 release.

  RUST_LOG=ck=[warn|info|error|debug] ck

  RUST_LOG=ck=debug ck

TODO:

• Asynchronously open Makefile
• handle multi-target Makefile rules
• support commands with streaming data
  • example: tail -f /var/log/dmesg.log
• Support additional task runner type build scripts
  • npm
  • grunt
  • taskpy
  • etc.
• switch makfile-lossless to PEG for rule target detecion
• seperate task runner support to library
• cracker-tui
• hx/vi compatible keymapping
• add to crates.io
• CICD

Motivation

• Quick and easy execution and monitoring of Makefile and other types of runners for your local project.