Create a ppb console command.

[pathunstrom]

I imagine a console script with helpful ppb commands. Clearly on the list is the shell being worked on in #177. Also want to add a ppb run sub command that can take a module or package with certain rules and do the engine instantiation for you.

[AstraLuma]

This has to do with #177 and some of the ideas of moving in a LOVE-like direction.

[AstraLuma]

Ok, some thoughts from discord:

• ppb run looks for __main__.py in the current directory and runs that
• ppb run spam does python -m spam
• ppb shell opens a repl
• ppb fix-assets adds __init__.py in places it thinks it's needed

There was some discussion around how magical ppb run should be (like, it executes the target file, pulls out its global namespace, and looks for starting_scene or setup), but you'd then also need an engine config. Having worked with framework configs plenty in the web space, you often just need python-as-config and at that point you might as well have the user call ppb.run() themselves.

[AstraLuma]

Maybe ppb get-font to help users finding and pulling fonts from google fonts?

[pathunstrom]

The simplest way to add some of these things will be via console_scripts. Which would mean the code needs to live with ppb proper.

I dunno if bundling that closely is the best plan.

[AstraLuma]

I'm not against sticking it in ppb proper, based on dependencies vs value. (eg, font integration without requests would be... Fun.)

It would also be pretty easy to do a ppb-cli package that does the same thing.

[AstraLuma]

• ppb versions--some kind of output of library versions, including SDL