Subcommand aliases

[danielbayley]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

mas could use a few aliases, to bring it more in line with brew and cask…

Proposed

• -v ➡ version
• ls ➡ list
• remove ➡ uninstall
• rm ➡ uninstall
• get ➡ install <with arguments> (after install is updated to "purchase")
• purchase ➡ install <with arguments> (after install is updated to "purchase")
• sign-in ➡ signin
• sign-out ➡ signout

Implemented

• --version ➡ version
• -h/--help ➡ help

Rejected

• i ➡ install
• update ➡ brew upgrade mas

[phatblat]

Good idea! These would be easy to add.

[danielbayley]

These would be easy to add.

@phatblat I imagine so… although I haven't dug into Swift yet… If you point out where in the codebase, I can do a PR…

[phatblat]

This project uses Commandant and all the commands live in the Commands folder. I don't see an option in Commandant for creating a command alias. However, you could:

1. Duplicate the classes
   • e.g. copy List.swift to Ls.swift and change the verb to ls
2. Add the new command class to the registry main.swift

[danielbayley]

This project uses Commandant and all the commands live in the Commands folder. I don't see an option in Commandant for creating a command alias. However, you could:

1. Duplicate the classes

   • e.g. copy List.swift to Ls.swift and change the verb to ls

2. Add the new command class to the registry main.swift

@phatblat Ok, quickly done that for i, ls, rm/remove, and a rough implementation of update in #283… Not sure how to deal with -v/--version, or -h/--help within the context of the Commandant framework though?

[muescha]

the -v/--version, or -h/--help are flags and options in the Commandant system

[muescha]

just copy over the command looks not good as coding style - i would create a wrapper command for alias and wrap them in this command - so no duplicate code is created

see comment here: Carthage/Commandant#155 (comment)

if the alias command not goes into commandant - we can add it anyway into the mas codebase

Note: duplicate code is bad, because if someone change the code most time they forget to edit the "copied" code part)