It's a bit of an annoyance keeping up with all the names for shards - the yml file is shard, the command for installing shards is shards and to create a shard using crystal init you have to type lib. Would be more uniform if they were all called the same thing.
acoolstraw
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FWIW shards init is also a thing that just initializes a new shard.yml; crystal init is used to scaffold a whole Crystal project.
Blacksmoke16
on 11 Jan 2020
It's just confusing - that's shard, that's shards, that's lib, they all mean the same thing though
acoolstraw
on 11 Jan 2020
Yes, but the point I was trying to make is crystal init is outside the scope of this repo, and arguably should be its own thing. Regardless there are only like 3 things here, hardly anything that is worth changing.
EDIT: See some comments in https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/8532
Blacksmoke16
on 11 Jan 2020
I think it's quite simple to tell apart:
- Shards is the program
- shard.yml is a shard's configuration file
The argument to crystal init isn't even related to that. lib just means your shard is supposed to be a library in contrast to an application. Both generate a shard.yml.
straight-shoota
on 11 Jan 2020
I guess you have a point
acoolstraw
on 11 Jan 2020
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I think it's quite simple to tell apart:
The argument to
crystal initisn't even related to that.libjust means your shard is supposed to be a library in contrast to an application. Both generate a shard.yml.