RFC: `lake exe` should provide suggestions
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Description
Currently lake exe errors with error: missing executable name.
Can it list the available exes defined in the current and upstream projects? This would help discoverability.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the lake exe command and trace the path that produces the missing executable name error. Inspect how executables are exposed by the current and upstream projects, then determine how suggestions should be listed; done means lake exe reports the available executables when no name is supplied.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- cli, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100