GitHub uses CONTRIBUTING.md as the basis for a message to someone
creating a new issue. I made a few changes to modernize the contribution
section, but there's still room for updates.
Since several utilities check if the standard streams are interactive, I
moved this into the uucore::fs library as is_std*_interactive(). I also
added Windows support for these methods, which only return false (or at
least until someone finds a way to support this).
This allows a user to create builds with or without the Unix-specific
utilities. Right now the Makefile handles this, but this is needed to
migrate away from make.
To build Unix-specific utilities (default):
cargo build
(or)
cargo build --features unix --no-default-features
To build without the Unix-specific utilities:
cargo build --features generic --no-default-features
When determining the range from which to select portions of a line, the
upper limit of the range is a usize. The maximum upper value is
usize::MAX, but at one point this value is incremented, causing an
overflow. By setting the maximum upper value to usize::MAX-1, the bug is
averted. Since the upper limit of the range is an index (thus, ranging
from 0 to 2^64-1 for 64-bit platforms), the maximum usize should not be
reached.
I separated test's main() into a separate file to override Cargo's
requirement for matching crate names. I had to update the build command
to use a special extern reference for test.
Fixes issues caused by #728.
To avoid linking issues with Rust's libtest, the crate for the test
utility was changed to 'uutest'. However, the user doesn't need to see
this so a few hoops were jumped through to make this transparent.
I also updated the make rules to build the individual features first and
then uutils. This makes 'make && make test' look more organized.
Everything in src/common has been moved to src/uucore. This is defined
as a Cargo library, instead of directly included. This gives us
flexibility to make the library an external crate in the future.
Fixes#717.
