Any plans to rename cli?

Hi there

I was wondering if it would be considered to update the cli to learna-lite in a future version, as opposed to the two ws-* commands? The reasoning behind this would be for ease of development, where developers familiar with lerna could easily recognise the use of this project as lerna like commands, whereas ws-* is not familiar

I’m submitting a Feature request

Motivation / Use Case

Ease of migration and familiarity for developers

Expected Behavior

ws-roller version - > lerna-lite version etc

Other Information

[ghiscoding]

Alternatively, have you looked at making a command runner as part of core that understands version|publish|run as commands and routes them to individual clis as needed?

So e.g., lerna-lite run would look for @lerna-lite/run installed in the node_modules (local or global) and would invoke it if found, otherwise print a warning asking users to install the package

If you know how to do that and keep the run command optional, I’d be happy to get a PR on this, I personally never created a CLI code before creating this project and there are sections of the original Lerna CLI that I don’t fully understand how it all work.

I’m currently mostly focused on adding most of Lerna’s unit tests as much as possible so that we can add features without stressing too much.

Also if anyone think they have a better approach/code with certain things and it makes more sense then go ahead with PRs. My main goal was to replace Lerna in my own monorepo with something that was smaller which doesn’t have too much out of date dependencies. However, the only thing that I really wish to keep separate and optional is the run command.

[ghiscoding]

After few days working on this, the feature is in, so hopefully this will clear the last hurdle for people who want to migrate from Lerna to Lerna-Lite. I basically copied over the original Lerna CLI and even used the exact same name so it’s a full drop-in replacement, just swap Lerna to Lerna-Lite in your dependencies and you’ll be good to go. See the new release and I decided to make it a major as 1.0.0

I also implemented what @mrchief suggested so that I could keep run as an optional package and I just tried it in my own repo to not install it and as expected I get the error that was suggested.

So hopefully everyone can enjoy it and I can close the subject and move on to something else 😉