Fortune

A no-nonsense, user-extensible fortune-mod replacement.

Goals

• Sensible: I'm fed up with fortunes about men hating their wives.
• Straightforward: No weird formats. Plain text with \n escape sequences; easy to add or remove content.

This project was originally built in Rust, and I migrated it to C# primarily to test out bflat.

Methodology

fortune-cs starts by selecting a category file, then a line, so the user will see a normal representation of each file. Then, it selects a line from the file.

The fortune files themselves can be extended just by appending; cat b.txt >> a.txt is a perfectly valid way of merging two files.

Installation

Application

Release Binary

Copy the compiled binary from the releases page to a directory in $PATH, such as /usr/bin/.

From Source

Clone the source repository and either use the prewritten just recipe with the command just build, or run bflat build ./src/Program.cs if you'd rather set your build options manually.

Base Fortunes

Release Tarball

Copy the base-fortunes.tar.gz tarball from the releases page, extract the archive using tar xzf base-fortunes.tar.gz, and move the resulting .txt files to /usr/share/fortune-cs/.

From Source

Clone the source repository and copy the files from the data/ directory to /usr/share/fortune-cs.

Dependencies

• bflat: Compiler
• just: Build recipe