Cargo Install Friend

Seems overly complicated if the goal was a "simpler fortune" - a self-contained shell-script is perfectly capable of echoing random lines (I should know, I had one for generating email signatures).

On the other hand, if all one wants is a set of fortune cookies - there's no need for the new client - fortune-mod exists:

https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/fortune-mod/

Re: Cargo Install Friend

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Post by e12e » Tue, May 26, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #5

Seems overly complicated if the goal was a "simpler fortune" - a self-contained shell-script is perfectly capable of echoing random lines (I should know, I had one for generating email signatures). On the other hand, if all one wants is a set of fortune cookies - there's no need for the new client - fortune-mod exists: https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/fortune-mod/

That said, I appreciate a trivial rust program that does a simple job - as someone not quite having taken the time to learn rust yet?).

I would probably not bother with the built-in cookies - if anything - have an option to "seed" ~/.config/friend/fortunes.txt or whatever is the proper xdg path.

https://docs.rs/crate/friend/0.1.0/source/src/main.rs

Re: Cargo Install Friend

#7

Post by sigmonsays » Tue, May 26, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

why waste the cargo namespace on stuff like this. it's not even very thoughtful.