BlocksFree and cppo-ng

This project began as cppo-ng, an attempt to begin evolving cppo, a script written by Ivan Drucker, to be more pythonic. It's growing into something a bit bigger than that, however. See HISTORY.md if you want details about where it started and how it's gotten here.

The goal is no longer simply to clean up the cppo script!

What we actually want

TL;DR:

• A scriptable AppleCommander-ac-like tool
• cppo with all of its present external interface.
• The features of CiderPress from the command line
• Native feel on Windows, Mac, and Linux at the minimum
• Future: A GUI tool that can display characters natively

It should be quite doable to build a tool like AppleCommander-ac with the ability to read, write, convert, dump, and other things that one currently does with AppleCommander. Moreover, it should be no major thing to have it be able to output data in a mechanical format that can be processed by shell scripts or JSON that can be processed by anything more functionally complete. That will resolve the issues of the thing being written in Python if you need something else for the majority of cases. It's not a perfect solution for Windows outside of development tools, but development tools are the primary application for this.

We have tools that need cppo and we cannot assume that we're the only ones who do. We could maintain the existing script, but it has both bugs and limitations. Better to emulate the old cppo using a new interface. You can do this with a runner that provides the old interface alongside the modern one. That's the plan.

The possibility of using urwid exists to provide a textual interface. It's probably desirable for any GUI to be abstract enough to have multiple implementations, but the idea that you might want a textual interface should be considered.

Documentation

If you'd like to write some. :)

Contributions

Yes please!