Lightweight screenfetch/archey replacement in Racket, only has features that are absolutely necessary.
The problem? screenfetch is more than 3.8k standard lines of code.
There are window managers that are less than this. For a script which reports system information, this is simply too large and needlessly complex.
Furthermore, screenfetch is designed to function on a great variety of platforms, so it's not always immediately clear what code affects the platform you're currently running on.
infornography aims to remedy this. It is to be written entirely in Racket and target one, or very few, platforms. This way we avoid needing excessive code to deal with the quirks of the many operating systems and distributions in circulation.
It's the most hackable language there is.
No. But I'd rather write something small that I can edit later than learn the codebase of screenfetch. It's also something to do.
raco exe infornography.rkt will build a native binary.
I might put some up somewhere in the future, maybe.
archey seems to follow more closely the principles of KISS, however it's designed only for Arch Linux. We'd like to be a little more broad, but just a little.
- See Notes page
You need Homebrew to install it
$ brew tap goodmind/homebrew-wired
$ brew install infornography
You can use Yaourt or your preferred AUR helper
$ yaourt -S infornography
$ infornography
PRs accepted