gemini-fmt idea

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On Tue, May 19, 2020, 14:46 Martin Keegan <martin at no.ucant.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 May 2020, jan6 at tilde.ninja wrote:
>
> C is also a good choice […] python3 is probably very much OK for practical
> usage by humans


Sorry Jan, I didn't get your email from the list so I have to double quote
it here. Oops, yeah, I meant to say that about python too. Just to make it
easier for less technical would be Gemini authors. pip install gemini-fmt
and then gemini-fmt mytext.gemini is super easy, in addition to the
lightweight and portable parts.

Makes a lot of sense to look at an embeddable similar verify tool.

>
> For the time being, it'd be a good step forward just to have a tool in
> *any* language which reliably answered the question whether a file/string
> were conformant with the spec. It'd be nice to be able to say
> sendfile(readfile()) and know that one's not breaking the strict reading
> of the spec.
>
> For this, it suffices to have a gemini-check tool rather than a gemini-fmt
> tool, which presumably would be able to output a new, conformant file.
>

Yes, gemini-fmt in "simple mode" would output a new file but "expert mode"
would be a gemini-check with friendly error output that would say what
didn't match the spec

Thank you both for the comments.
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