Keeping this here for nostalgia since CmdBox is now a thing that resulted from these original ideas. At the time I had never even heard of BusyBox.
Building on the idea from cmdtab
where subcommand (actions) are composable and completely independent
from anything else. They simply need to be put into a command directory
and registered with the main.go (or main subcommand) in order to work.
What if we created a standard for pulling in these subcommands so that people can write them in a composable way, and other people can build commands that composed of these selections of subcommands?
The building is essential to insure security and code validation and also to allow cross-compilation to target systems on which the main command (composed of subcommands) will eventually run.
For example, we could use a standard GitHub repo naming convention
(maybe github.com/<youruser>/cmdtab-<subcmd>):
.git
main.go - simply calls cmdtab.Execute("<subcmd>")
go.mod
go.sum
<subcmd>.go - standar cmdtab containing <subcmd>
<subcmd>_test.go - option if needed
Perhaps we can even use subcommands and symbolic links to include in the build. This is no different than how Nginx does configurations after all.
<subcmd>.go file for easy inclusion.