Installer hapless avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt

Commandes et alias

• hap

Historique du projet

The author introduced hapless in a 2022-11-13 post as a Python project for running and tracking background processes more conveniently than raw shell job-control patterns. The README defines the tool as the simplest way of running and tracking processes in the background.

Historique d'adoption

The official README documents installation with uv, pipx, pip, and Homebrew. That is a narrow but useful adoption surface for Python-oriented command-line users who want a lightweight process runner rather than a full supervisor.

Modes d'utilisation

The main command pattern is `hap run -- <command>`, followed by `hap`, `hap status`, `hap logs`, `hap pause`, `hap resume`, `hap signal`, and `hap clean` for monitoring and lifecycle actions. The blog post emphasizes detached execution, output redirection, generated IDs, custom names, and later log inspection.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

hapless occupies the gap between ad hoc `nohup`/shell job control and full process managers such as Supervisor. It is package-manager-interesting mostly because it gives a short, memorable executable, `hap`, to a common local-automation task without requiring a service manager.

Chronologie

• 2022-11-13: Author blog post introduces hapless as a recently developed Python project.
• 2020s: Official README documents uv, pipx, pip, and Homebrew installation paths.

Related projects

• The README explicitly points users to Rich for console UI ideas and Supervisor as the full-fledged process-manager alternative.

Sources

• https://bmwant.link/hapless-easily-run-and-manage-background-processes
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hapless
• https://github.com/bmwant/hapless