Status command

[lra]

Implement a mackup status command to display any synced app, and any app that could be synced
by launching mackup backup

When we launch mackup status we should have a list of all the locally installed apps that mackup supports, and for each one, it should display if the application settings are synced (linked into the mackup data folder)

It should also display the applications that have files in the mackup data folder even if they are not installed locally.

Example of output:

Application | Status
--------------------------
Bash        | Synced
Emacs       | Not Synced
Vim         | Config available in Mackup
Zsh         | Synced

This is a required step to support copy mode (instead of linking) as with copy mode we need to display how old is each saved configuration to the user.

PR welcomed for the status command.

[dahacouk]

And maybe the datetime when applications were last Synced?

[lra]

What you are asking is about the copy mode: #613
Linked configs are always in sync.

[star-szr]

I'm very interested in working on this, any thoughts as to how we would get the kind of output shown in the OP? I can start to work on the plumbing without knowing but would be good to know if there's a library/package that would make building that type of output easier.

[jannae]

Hey @cottser, take a look at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate

[lra]

yep prettytable too

[star-szr]

Thank you both, tabulate looks more appealing because prettytable hasn't been updated since early 2013 and the code lives at an archived Google code project. I haven't made any significant progress on this yet but will make sure any PRs I submit show up here.

[star-szr]

Serious (newbie) question: How do you actually recommend setting this project up for development? When you install via Homebrew things seem kinda tangled and I couldn't figure out how to get the tabulate package in there. pip is more straightforward, I just symlinked /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mackup to my repo's mackup directory.

If there's an easier/better way (or not), I'd be happy to write a note to add to CONTRIBUTING.md 👍

[lra]

uninstall the homebrew one, run make develop and make undevelop to clean up.