Book: Section on config-description
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Description
As requested in https://github.com/rust-cli/book/pull/166#discussion_r972045274 I'd like to open up a discussion about config description.
The general idea of what I call "config description" here is that a given configuration type can describe itself in a machine-readable way, which can ultimatively be rendered to user-documentation.
A user would ask the program "tell me how I can configure you?" and the program is then able to tell the user "I get configured via the following settings: 'greeting_message', which has to be a String, 'repeat', which has to be a number greater than zero".
A possible solution for this is sketched out in #166 using the type_description crate.
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Start by reading the discussion in pull request #166, especially the referenced comment, and review the proposed use of the type_description crate. The issue describes a broad machine-readable configuration-description concept rather than naming files or tests. A clear outcome would require agreeing on the scope and approach before implementation can begin.
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- Tech stack
- rust
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- cli, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100