ppl

This project seems to be in a good stable state. There’s a small active userbase who are mostly content with the software as-is.

The time has come to give this project a nudge into a slightly different mode of operation. Enough people are interested in the long term health of this little CLI app that I think it’d benefit from opening the doors a bit to potential collaborators and maintainers.

It’s been almost exactly six months since the very first commit, and I’m proud to announce that ppl has now reached the dizzy heights of version 2.0.0!

Over the weekend, in an uncharacteristically late night of coding, I finally put an end to that UTF-8 issue that had been preventing the use of ppl with non-ASCII characters such as ß or ñ. My apologies to anyone who wanted to try ppl and couldn’t during the two entire months that issue sat open.

The latest version of ppl is available now, and it’s one of those tiny, pointless-sounding ones: 1.15.1. This release is all about Ruby 2.0 compatibility.

Today marks the release of support for git-style coloured output, configurable in ~/.pplconfig.

It’s been almost two months now since the big day of ppl’s public release.

Yesterday I worked up the courage to submit this project to Hacker News under the usual Show HN format. I was pleasantly surprised by how positive the feedback was overall.

After a solid month or so of work, the first stable version of ppl has been released to the public.