cargo-init would be super nice

[lightsofapollo]

Something like cargo-init to bootstrap a new project would be very nice (mainly creating the toml file if it does not exist and maybe other flags in the future)

[wycats]

Indeed it would be. On it!

[thiagopnts]

Would it be something like rust-empty or more cargo specific?

[steveklabnik]

@thiagopnts Cargo is a replacement for rust-empty. It would be cargo-specific. My understanding is that rust-empty has a 'transition to Cargo' feature of some kind...

[commonquail]

From the alpha announcement:

• cargo package <name> to create a new package skeleton

Is it correctly understood that cargo package <name> would be the solution to this issue? If so, I associate a different meaning -- that of preparing for distribution -- with package, and I don't think that's an intuitive name for the command. I think init, if for no other reason than consistency with several other tools with similar functionality, is a better fit.

[steveklabnik]

I think we actually decided on cargo project, and that's a typo, but I could be wrong.

[tomjakubowski]

project is a poor choice to me because the other subcommands are all verbs, and "project" as a verb doesn't map well to what this command is doing.

[tomjakubowski]

(unless you mean it's like... a projection of some abstract directory structure onto the filesystem)

[seanmonstar]

+1 cargo init. Previously: npm init?

[thiagopnts]

what about cargo new?

[tomjakubowski]

Prior art includes:

• npm init - creates a package.json file, with interactive prompts for package name/license and such
• lein new [template-name] <project-name> - creates a new folder containing a skeleton project, optionally from a template, including a project.clj file
• cabal init - creates a skeleton Setup.hs and project_name.cabal in the current directory, with interactive prompts

[mavdi]

+1 I miss npm init

[jimfleming]

Just throwing this in, git init would be another established example.

[wycats]

git init initializes an existing directory, as does bundle init. We may want to have an analogue to that and use cargo new to create a new directory that is already cargoified.

[nielsle]

Perhaps allow the user to choose between cargo init --template=bin and cargo init --template=lib to enforce standards.