Stamp

The difference is you can directly edit the file in a text editor (possibly even in the github ui) instead of needing to unzip, edit, and rezip. It makes find and replace across…

I see this as a declarative vs imperative approach. The interface is a bit barebones and heavy right now by needing to fire up node and run the functions. But like declarative vs…

Interesting approach, I like it. I’m bemused to observe that even though you include a section describing alternatives, there are still the usual number of comments saying “why…

Cool seems like unix `cat` command with addition of storing the filepath (so maybe like `find`?) While this of course sound like a cool project and my comment might be the most…

It's not bashing a tool per se, sorry if you read it as such. I was pointing out that with the abundance of tools we have at our disposal this project sounds to me like a…

Yes I read it and I don't agree with the posted downsides for most of them, since the tool itself seems to share the downsides with the posted pro-cons of other solutions and…

What about files with different encodings? Which of them is used? UTF-8? Same question about line endings And how does it deal with files that have strict whitespace requirements…

shar is specifically mentioned in the footer, with the drawback that it's really an arbitrary shell scipt. ptar is also mentioned, and seems rather nice. It's also way better…

Maybe I missed it: What happens to binary data?

This is very much a solved problem. Wierd people can think this is something that the grey beards didn't ever think of between 1970-01-01T00:00:00 and today.

I think diff & patch already serve us well for a few decades.

Would love to accept a PR adding a link to that. There really should be one. Thanks!

I don't think I've seen that! Thanks! Happy to accept a PR with a link to it. The "template package manager" sounds very cool. Perhaps Stamp as a format for the CookieCutter…

I would be open to a PR adding a link to a good diff/patch way of doing this.

Nice! I love the animated demo you have there. I'd be happy to accept a PR adding a link to this.

Good question. Base64? I forget if I added support for that.

Maybe I missed it: What happens to binary data?

shar is specifically mentioned in the footer, with the drawback that it's really an arbitrary shell scipt. ptar is also mentioned, and seems rather nice. It's also way better…

I have a couple questions: Why should I use your tool vs. a one line bash script for creating a directory tree? Why would I keep any file content in the stamp file, in the…

Why don’t you write it with posix only tools then? It’s a great idea that didn’t exist yet. Who cares how the developer made it? I’m sure if it takes off people will rewrite it…

Cool seems like unix `cat` command with addition of storing the filepath (so maybe like `find`?) While this of course sound like a cool project and my comment might be the most…

It's not bashing a tool per se, sorry if you read it as such. I was pointing out that with the abundance of tools we have at our disposal this project sounds to me like a…

It seems very comparable to "shar"...shell archives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar

Regarding the project templates, did you look at Cookiecutter [0]? There are over 5k projects that GitHub finds that use it [1]. It solves the “custom utility” problem, since it…

Another alternative for something like this would be MIME multipart/mixed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Multipart_messages). That allows a text file to contain several…

https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools@v0.1.0/txtar could be used for this…