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Branch off from master with pytest, tox, click
This commit is huge, but contains everything needed for a "proper" build system built on pytest + tox and a CLI built with click. For now, this branch will contain all new vgstash development activity until it reaches feature parity with master. The CLI is installed to pip's PATH. Only the 'init', 'add', and 'list' commands work, with only two filters. This is pre-alpha software, and is therefore not stable yet.
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+# vgstash - a place to stash your game collection
+
+If you love video games, you've probably amassed a collection of them, across
+many different systems; physical, digital, and everything in-between. At some
+point, a player may want to know a few key pieces of information that may steer
+their gaming. These questions are great for quelling boredom and keeping a
+gaming backlog manageable:
+
+* Which games do I own?
+* Which games have I beaten or completed?
+* Which games do I need to beat?
+* What was the note I left for X game?
+
+vgstash seeks to answer these type of questions in a simple and extensible way.
+
+# Installation
+
+vgstash is available via `pip`:
+
+~~~
+pip install [--user] vgstash
+~~~
+
+Packages for vgstash on Gentoo Linux and Adélie Linux are on the TODO list.
+
+Please note that vgstash is under heavy development at present. Do not install
+unless you are interested in helping its development.
+
+# Concept
+
+The core concept of vgstash is the game itself. Every game in a player's
+collection has a few important attributes, all of which are obvious to the
+player:
+
+* Title
+* System
+* Ownership
+ * unowned
+ * physical
+ * digital
+ * both
+* Progress
+ * new
+ * playing
+ * beaten
+ * complete
+* Notes
+
+Think of any game that you have a history with. Let's say it was a game you
+bought as part of a Humble Bundle, but haven't started playing yet. Internally,
+vgstash tracks it somewhat like this:
+
+```
+.--------------------------------------------------------.
+| Title | System | Ownership | Progress |
+|------------------------+--------+-----------+----------|
+| FTL: Faster Than Light | Steam | digital | new |
+'--------------------------------------------------------'
+```
+
+This is the bare minimum information you need to meaningfully track a video
+game in your collection.
+
+vgstash comes with a command line client of the same name, which gives you
+high level commands to manipulate the database with. It's the reference
+implementation for a vgstash client.
+
+If you wanted to add the above game to your collection, you'd do it like this:
+
+```bash
+$ vgstash add 'FTL: Faster Than Light' Steam d n
+Added FTL: Faster Than Light for Steam. You digitally own it and you have not started it.
+```
+
+Pretty easy, huh? Each game and system added to vgstash is free-form and can
+be tuned to match the user's preferences. vgstash has a fairly small set of
+commands:
+
+* add
+* delete
+* update
+* list
+
+The power is in the `list` command. vgstash comes with a set of default filters
+that allow you to reason about your game collection. For example, this command
+will show you every game marked "playing" that you also own in some way:
+
+```bash
+$ vgstash list playlog
+# listed output here
+```
+
+Consult `vgstash -h` for further usage information.
+
+# Roadmap
+
+These are planned for the full 0.3 release:
+
+* command line interface finished
+* Match feature-set with `master`
+
+Goals planned for the 0.4 release:
+
+* import and export with JSON
+
+Goals planned for the 0.5 release:
+
+* some sort of GUI (Tk and Qt are current candidates)
+
+Goals planned for the 1.0 release:
+
+* Kivy-based interface (to release on Android via F-Droid)
+
+If this interests you, please [e-mail me](mailto:zlg+vgstash@zlg.space) or find
+me on the Fediverse: [@zlg@social.zlg.space](https://social.zlg.space/users/zlg)
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-vgstash is a tool used to keep track of a video game collection. In addition to
-basic inventory maintenance, vgstash supports the ability to clarify whether or
-not the user owns a game, and their progress through said game. This makes it
-easy to manage a backlog and serve as a "memory" for which games someone has
-finished.
-
-# Concept
-
-Essentially, vgstash just gets out of your way and lets you manage things.
-Nothing fancy like box art or finding games in a massive dropdown box. There are
-easy flags to track common searches, like "All games that are owned and haven't
-been beaten", making vgstash convenient.
-
-Since vgstash itself is just a front-end to an SQLite database, other interfaces
-to this database format can be built to extend the basic concept. SQLite is
-supported across tons of languages and platforms, so it's rather trivial to
-build another frontend to it. If that's not enough, vgstash also supports
-exporting collections as YAML or pipe-delimited lines, and importing from YAML.
-This makes batch-editing by a human easy with YAML, and the raw format is great
-for pushing vgstash's output through pipes, as any good
-\*nix tool should.
-
-## Data Format
-
-The key to managing things is keeping it simple, but flexible enough to give you
-meaningful insight to the data itself. vgstash gets straight to business
-with its data format:
-
-* Name (string)
-* System (string)
-* Ownership (boolean)
-* Completion Level (integer)
- * 0 (Fresh)
- * 1 (In Progress)
- * 2 (Beaten)
- * 3 (Completed)
-
-There isn't a hard limit on the length of the Name or System strings. SQLite
-itself, however, has internal limits. Those limits may differ between platforms,
-so there's no guarantee that vgstash databases will work across them. The
-`import` and `export` functions should be used to transport vgstash databases
-from one platform to another, as YAML is better-standardized and easily
-modifiable.
-
-# Usage
-
-Using vgstash is fairly easy, for a command-line program. It accepts
-a handful of commands, which will be explained below:
-
-* init
-* add
-* update
-* delete
-* list
-* import
-* export
-
-## Tips
-
-For the sake of accessibility and ease of use, there are some synonyms:
-
-When specifying ownership, `0` (zero) and `n` mean the same thing. The same is
-true of `1` (one) and `y`.
-
-When specifying progress, the numbers and letters can both be used:
-
-`0` is also `f` or "fresh".
-`1` is also `i` (lowercase I) or "in-progress".
-`2` is also `b` (lowercase B) or "beaten".
-`3` is also `c` (lowercase C) or "completed".
-
-Since vgstash relies on the shell and SQLite to function, unquoted strings
-are likely to not be handled well. If your data ever looks funky, try correcting
-it with a quoted string. Bugs or issues that are reported without quoted strings
-will be discarded as WONTFIX, as that's basic, sane practice in every shell
-under the sun.
-
-## Getting Started
-
-Initialize the database, where your information will be stored:
-
-~~~
-vgstash init
-~~~
-
-The location of the database may be set using an environment variable. To learn
-more, see the Environment Variables section.
-
-## Adding
-
-Next, add a game or two:
-
-~~~
-vgstash add "Super Mario Bros" NES y i
-~~~
-
-In the above example, we're adding *Super Mario Bros* for the NES system. We own
-it, and haven't beaten it yet.
-
-Let's add another:
-
-~~~
-vgstash add "Borderlands 2" PC
-~~~
-
-This command has just the basics: game name, and game platform. For the sake
-of simplicity, the ownership and progress flags have default values: ownership
-defaults to "y" for "yes" and progress defaults to "i" for "in-progress". In
-both cases, they are the most typical state for a video game to be added to ones
-collection. This can be influenced; see the Environment Variables section for
-more info.
-
-## Listing
-
-vgstash has plenty of methods to interface with your game collection. The
-simplest listing would be "list every game in the database":
-
-~~~
-# The 'all' is optional
-vgstash list all
-~~~
-
-This will output a human-readable list of games you have in the database, with
-proper flags and unique IDs, which will come in handy later. For ease of use,
-`list all` will sort by system, then by title. Here's an example:
-
-~~~
-ID | Title | System | Own | Progress
----+---------------------+--------+-----+----------
-3 | Metroid | NES | * | I
-1 | Super Mario Bros | NES | | C
-2 | The Legend of Zelda | NES | * | B
-4 | Borderlands | PC | * | F
-~~~
-
-From the above output, we can gather that we don't own *Super Mario Bros*
-anymore. It's been completed, however, so that's good news. We own *Zelda*, and
-it's been beaten, but not completed. We also own *Metroid*, but it's still
-in-progress. Lastly, we own Borderlands for the PC, but haven't started playing
-it yet.
-
-The output format is designed to be easy to read, and omits information to serve
-as a visual guide whenever possible. From a single glance, you should be able to
-spot which games you own and which haven't been started yet.
-
-### List Filtering
-
-Seeing all of your games is great when you're just getting started, but what
-about after you've added your massive 500 game collection? Nobody wants to sort
-through screenfulls of text. That's where filtering comes in. The `list` command
-accepts the following filters:
-
-* **arcade**
- Games you own that cannot be beaten.
-
-* **backlog**
- Games you own that have not been beaten or completed.
-
-* **borrowing**
- Games you don't own and are playing.
-
-* **complete**
- Games that have been completed.
-
-* **digital**
- Games you own digitally.
-
-* **done**
- Games that have been beaten *or* completed.
-
-* **incomplete**
- Games you own that have been beaten, but not completed.
-
-* **new**
- Games you own and haven't played yet.
-
-* **owned**
- Games you own.
-
-* **physical**
- Games you own physically.
-
-* **playlog**
- Games you own that are marked 'playing'.
-
-* **unowned**
- Games you don't own.
-
-* **wishlist**
- Games you don't own *and* haven't played yet.
-
-## Update
-
-The `update` command requires the game's ID, the field you're changing, and the
-value you're changing it to.
-
-The fields you can change are
-
-* title
-* system
-* ownership
-* progress
-
-As explained in **Data Format**, ownership and progress can use single letters
-to substitute for the internal numeric representations.
-
-To get a game's ID, try using something like `vgstash list | grep "foo"` to find
-what you're looking for.
-
-## Deleting
-
-For one reason or another, you may need to remove items from your game database.
-The `delete` command, coupled with the game's ID, will take care of that
-for you. If you want to remove *every* game from your collection, delete
-`$HOME/.vgstash.db` (or wherever `VGSTASH_DB_LOCATION` is set to) and start over
-with `vgstash init`.
-
-# Environment Variables
-
-Customization is pretty important if you're going to manage hundreds of games.
-There are only a few, but they may come in handy for you!
-
-* `VGSTASH_DB_LOCATION`
- Defaults to `$HOME/.vgstash.db`.
-
-* `VGSTASH_DEFAULT_OWNERSHIP`
- Can be 0 or 1. Default is 1 (yes).
-
-* `VGSTASH_DEFAULT_PROGRESS`
- Can be 0 through 3. Default is 1 (in-progress).
-
-* `VGSTASH_TABLE_WIDTH`
- The width of the table output by the `list` command. For readability
-reasons, vgstash will only allow values that are 50 or above. If this variable
-is set to zero (0) however, it will expand to fit the entire width of your
-terminal/tty. It defaults to 80 characters.
-
-# Contributing
-
-vgstash was first written in Python 3.4. There are no plans to produce a Python
-2.x version. Patches and pull requests are welcome! However, please do not
-contribute to this project unless you are fine with your contributions also
-being licensed under the GPL 3.0. This is to simplify licensing issues and keep
-things neat.
-
-Before submitting a Pull Request, please ensure that your commit(s) contain an
-addition of your name to the `AUTHORS` file. Others might not be using git to
-get or use vgstash, and every contributor deserves recognition. An example of
-what one would add to the `AUTHORS` file is:
-
-~~~
-John Q. Public, GitHub: @hellomynameisjohn <jqp@genericville.com>
- Corrected typos in manpage
-~~~
-
-Note that the indent is four spaces.
-
-# Roadmap
-
-vgstash is considered beta-quality at this time. Please report any issues, bugs,
-or even suggestions on how to improve vgstash.
-
-One feature that will not be built (at least by zlg) is search functionality.
-Since vgstash cooperates with piping, it's trivial to pass its output through
-other programs and get the fine-grained information a more advanced user may
-need.
-
-Here are the current goals:
-
-* manpage
-* bash-completion file
-* refined argument handling for shorthand commands
-
-# Copyright
-
-vgstash is Copyright © 2016-2018 zlg. It is licensed under the GNU General
-Public License, version 3.0. A copy of this license may be found in the
-`COPYING` file within this project. It may also be found on the World Wide Web
-at http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.