Add mow.cli, a library for building CLIs #612
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A library for building CLI applications.
Why yet another CLI library ?
mow.cli comes with support for what you would expect from any decent CLI library: posix syntax, option groups, commands and sub commands, contextual help, ...
What sets it apart is a sophisticated call validation, by providing a spec string to specify how exactly a command should be called.
For example, here's the spec string you can use with mow.cli to define the call syntax of a
cplike command:I've written 2 articles to explain in more details the why and how: 1, 2
mow.cli is fairly well tested (84% coverage), well documented (see godoc) and the code quality is not too bad either (A+ grade).