From: Suraj Kurapati <sunaku@...>
Date: 2011-10-15T07:01:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] binman 1.0.0

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On Friday, October 14, 2011 1:42:07 AM UTC-7, botp wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
> >          binman - UNIX man pages for Ruby bin/ scripts
>
> hmm, interesting. now, if only i could combine this w ara's main...
>
You could write a Rake task to mimic binman's Rake task which pre-compiles 
man page files from bin/ scripts.  Instead of parsing the leading comment 
header from your bin/ scripts, like binman does, run your main-using bin/ 
scripts to grab their help output, convert that to Markdown, and then use 
BinMan::conv() to convert them into Roff and save them in the man/ 
directory. 

The idea is that, if you can ship a man/ directory containing pre-built man 
page files in your gem or release package, then binman can show them 
directly to the user when they ask for --help.

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On Friday, October 14, 2011 1:42:07 AM UTC-7, botp wrote:<blockquote class=
=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #cc=
c solid;padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Suraj N. Kurap=
ati wrote:<br>&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;binman - UNIX man page=
s for Ruby bin/ scripts<p>hmm, interesting. now, if only i could combine th=
is w ara's main...</p></blockquote><div>You could write a Rake task to mimi=
c binman's Rake task which pre-compiles man page files from bin/ scripts. &=
nbsp;Instead of parsing the leading comment header from your bin/ scripts, =
like binman does, run your main-using bin/ scripts to grab their help outpu=
t, convert that to Markdown, and then use BinMan::conv() to convert them in=
to Roff and save them in the man/ directory.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div=
>The idea is that, if you can ship a man/ directory containing pre-built ma=
n page files in your gem or release package, then binman can show them dire=
ctly to the user when they ask for --help.</div>
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