Display embedded man pages for built-in commands. #8456

ehuss · 2020-07-06T02:16:11Z

This changes cargo help COMMAND to display the man page for the given command. cargo COMMAND --help continues to show the basic clap output.

The man pages are embedded in the executable in a compressed format. There's also a copy of the man pages in text format for platforms that do not have the man executable (like Windows).

It is unfortunate to check in more pre-generated files. I hope in the future that the usage of asciidoc can be replaced with something else (possibly a custom markdown-based solution).

cc #6104

rust-highfive · 2020-07-06T02:16:14Z

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alexcrichton

Seems pretty reasonable to me!

Is it possible though to add some form of CI checks to the auto-generated files? Something which ensures that what's in the repo matches what they'd look like if they were generated on CI

alexcrichton · 2020-07-06T14:52:09Z

src/bin/cargo/commands/help.rs

+/// Extracts the given man page from the compressed archive.
+///
+/// Returns None if the command wasn't found.
+fn extract_man(subcommand: &str, extension: &str) -> CargoResult<Option<Vec<u8>>> {


Should this return just Option since it unwrap()s internally anyway?

(also mind documenting the unwraps?)

alexcrichton · 2020-07-06T14:53:10Z

src/bin/cargo/commands/help.rs

+/// Write the contents of a man page to disk and spawn the given command to
+/// display it.
+fn write_and_spawn(contents: &[u8], command: &str) -> CargoResult<()> {
+    let mut tmp = tempfile::Builder::new().prefix("cargo-man").tempfile()?;


Is the tempfile required here? Programs like less I think we can just write everything to a pipe?

I'm not actually sure what other common CLI apps do here.

Unfortunately, AFAIK, the man program does not support piped content.

ehuss · 2020-07-06T18:01:16Z

I've been messing with checking on CI, and came to the realization that man (and sometimes asciidoctor itself) produces different output on different systems.

I think that emphasizes that it will be increasingly difficult for people to contribute to the documentation (if they don't have the exact same setup). I've been concerned about it in the past, but I feel like this is a tipping point.

Would you be opposed to a custom solution using Rust and markdown (to replace the asciidoctor stuff)? I don't know exactly what that would look like, or how much code it would be. Comparing to the html renderer and asciidoctor's manpage converter, I would hope it is roughly the same magnitude (under 1,000 lines).

I would probably still lean towards pre-generated files (instead of embedding pulldown-cmark into cargo itself, and rendering at runtime). I would probably just add a utility crate that can generate the rendered files.

alexcrichton · 2020-07-06T21:10:49Z

Gah bummer!

I don't think it's the end of the world to have a custom solution here, but it's sort of a bummer that we have to make something just for Cargo. Ideally it'd be shared by other CLI tooling elsewhere or such. (Cargo doesn't seem particularly unique in this regard).

As you mentioned though it's probably not a huge feature or implementation, so I think vendoring our own should be ok.

Mark-Simulacrum · 2020-07-06T21:34:22Z

It seems reasonable at least to perhaps have it out-of-repo (or make that an explicit "goal") -- I imagine at the very least, we'll probably want similar-ish tooling perhaps for rust{doc,c} --help eventually.

Add mdman for generating man pages. This introduces a new utility called `mdman` that converts a markdown-formatted document to a man page. This replaces asciidoctor, with the intent to make it easier to contribute, easier to have consistent formatting across platforms, and easier to generate plain-text documents for use on Windows (for #8456). This also includes a number of formatting fixes. There is some documentation in the `mdman/doc` directory explaining how to use it, and the docs in `src/doc/README.md` have been updated (this explains the structure of the files). The Makefile has been replaced with a simple shell script. CI has been updated to verify the checked-in docs are up-to-date. Perhaps in the future, these can be generated automatically (perhaps by `build.rs`?), but since that requires a bit of build system work (like upstream rust), this is deferred till later.

bors · 2020-08-03T19:03:39Z

☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #8577) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

ehuss · 2020-08-03T20:03:19Z

OK, I have rebased after #8577, and I think this should be ready to go. I haven't done much testing on less-common platforms and terminals (just mac/windows/linux/freebsd with a variety of common terminals). I'm kinda hoping if people run into problems, they can file an issue.

alexcrichton · 2020-08-03T21:20:42Z

@bors: r+

Looks great to me 👍

bors · 2020-08-03T21:20:43Z

📌 Commit 0d6881c has been approved by alexcrichton

bors · 2020-08-03T21:20:51Z

⌛ Testing commit 0d6881c with merge 2732539...

bors · 2020-08-03T21:42:12Z

☀️ Test successful - checks-actions
Approved by: alexcrichton
Pushing 2732539 to master...

Update cargo 8 commits in 2d5c2381e4e50484bf281fc1bfe19743aa9eb37a..1653f354644834073d6d2541e27fae94588e685e 2020-07-31 21:56:08 +0000 to 2020-08-04 23:14:37 +0000 - Fix close_output test. (rust-lang/cargo#8587) - clippy fixes, use matches! macro in more places (rust-lang/cargo#8575) - Display embedded man pages for built-in commands. (rust-lang/cargo#8456) - Add mdman for generating man pages. (rust-lang/cargo#8577) - Fix typo 'more then' -> 'more than' in error and comments (rust-lang/cargo#8581) - cargo login: make login message less ambiguous (rust-lang/cargo#8579) - Fix broken link in Build Cache chapter. (rust-lang/cargo#8578) - Fix intra-doc tests for renamed lint. (rust-lang/cargo#8576)

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Add mdman for generating man pages. #8577

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Create a dedicated module for help tests.

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Display embedded man pages for built-in commands.

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Change extract_man to not return a Result (not needed).

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