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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
scala-cli is almost capable of replacing cs launch
from Coursier: the only thing that appears to be missing, in order to be able to run an arbitrary application from dependencies, is that scala-cli run
requires at least one source file / directory.
For example:
scala-cli run --dep software.amazon.smithy:smithy-cli:1.45.0 . --main-class software.amazon.smithy.cli.SmithyCli
Describe the solution you'd like
If dependencies are provided, relax the requirement of having to pass a file/directory.
In addition, there are a couple nice-to-haves:
- discover main classes from dependencies, maybe with a flag?
- if no sources are passed, don't start a compilation server (assume
--server=false
?)
Describe alternatives you've considered
- Using
cs launch
as usual - Using a dummy empty directory as the sources
Additional context
This would be nice to enable the usage of code generators, such as smithy4s, without waiting for #610. For example, at the moment:
scala-cli run --scala 2.13 --dep com.disneystreaming.smithy4s::smithy4s-codegen-cli:0.18.15 . --main-class smithy4s.codegen.cli.Main --server=false -- version
which isn't terrible, but still requires that dummy directory (.
).
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