Help Wanted: Figlet alternative / native header in shell

[MickLesk]

Help Wanted:

Searching an Alternative for Figlet Header Generation:

Goals:

1. replacement of Figlet/Toilet
2. clean header area

Solution:

• Feel free to make suggestions
• If possible without dependencies, must work on debian/ubuntu & ultimately also on alpine.
• Must work for all script lengths, e.g. “memos” or also “Homeassistant-Core”

Idea:

• Native script (like to upload or create a repo yourself), which we can implement in the build.func that the ASCII header is built dynamically without third-party software.

[michelroegl-brunner]

I'm actually trying to port/implement something in bash atm. Will be a few more days tough.

[burgerga]

You could do it with a Github action that automatically creates/update the ASCII headers in a directory in the github repo for every script.

Benefits:

• No dependencies in the LXC/VM
• Efficient: only generated once (or when updated)
• No need to reinvent the wheel

[MickLesk]

Can you create an Example Branch for Testing? Im not a pro with GH Actions 😅

[towerhand]

What I had in mind is having a static ASCII header displaying "Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts" and a couple of lines with the relevant information for the repo. Then, a variable line with the name of the application. Keep it simple.

[burgerga]

@MickLesk Yes, it will take a bit of time though with the after-holidays catch up :)

[burgerga]

Ah I see you already wrote a GHA, nice! I thought about creating a separate file for each APP but this approach saves you the trouble of figuring out that logic, because the computational cost is likely negligible :)