rad, a privilege changer.

Wafelack — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:45:43 +0000

Hello, I wanted to share with you my own privilege changer, rad.

It works like a standard privilege changer (i.e rad <COMMAND> [ARGS...]) and is configured as following, using the TOML syntax:

[user]
# Allow all programs to be run
programs = "ALL" 
# Allow those programs to be run without asking for password.
no_password = ["poweroff", "reboot"]

I do not recommend you to use it in production yet, because it could have security breaches.

You can find it here if you want to look at the code or just install it.

Thank you for reading, and have a nice day.

Why i created a package and project manager for C lang

Wafelack — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:30:57 +0000

A few months ago, I was wondering why we hoard Makefiles and why it is so painful to use an external library in a C project.

So I had this idea : Creating a project manager & build tool for the C programming language.

I started to write a piece of code in C and it was not functionning properly (Cause I'm one of the worst C developers in this world) but i continued 'till we cannot run that thing.

At the same time, I was learning Rust ; so, I decided to try to rewrite the whole project in that language.

After a few weeks of rewriting, I had a correct product. The 08/10/2020, Wanager 1.0 was released. It had only a few features : project creation and reinitializing, project build and run and header creation.

At that point, someone called Lockeer told me that it will be cool if we can manage libraries.

So I wrote a simple system to install libraries hosted on my vps, with a submission system based on mailing. It was working, but limited because of vps bandwidth and the complexity of submiting by email.

So SuperFola poped up :

At first time, I decided, as he advised me, to use the github api that produces a tar archive of the repo.
I stucked on that for weeks because the command I was running was producing a corrupted file.

After raging on that problem, I realised that I'll gain some portability and time with cloning directly with a git command.

It worked good, so, everything is fine !

But Il_totore opened an issue :

So I made python support for build scripts with minimal version of 3.5.x and allowed path specification.

After that, on his advice, I made kind of Python API to have nice build scripts and it produced that :

from wngbuild import * # Import all from wngbuild module

build = BuildProfile(files="src/*.c",output="build/custom/prog.exe" ) # setup a build profile that will compile all files in src/ and place the binary in build/custom/prog.exe
build.cc = "C:\\MinGW\\bin\\gcc.exe" # Setup the compiler (optional, by default "gcc")
build.flags = "-W -Wall -Werror -Wextra" # Setup the flags that the command will be run with (optional)

build.run() # Run the compilation command
build.runOutput() # Run the binary produced by the compilation command (Will raise an error if the compilation command fails)

Wafelack / wng

The W package manager official repository | WNG is a C package and projects manager written in Rust.

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                        The W package manager
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ABOUT
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WNG is a C package and projects manager written in Rust. It permits 
projects build, run, creation and dependencies management.

It is highly customizable by a plugin system and it based on a 
highly modulable library.

It is available on Windows and Unix like systems.

It only requires a few prerequisties: a C compiler and git.

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It is still WIP, there are loads of features that I can add to it but I will be more very happy to answer your questions or help you use it.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

Forem: Wafelack

rad, a privilege changer.

Why i created a package and project manager for C lang

Wafelack / wng

The W package manager official repository | WNG is a C package and projects manager written in Rust.