Building from Sources

To build the CLI app from sources, run:

cargo install --locked term-transcript-cli
# Optionally, specify the release `--version`, or `--git` + 
# `--tag` / `--branch` / `--rev`  to build from the git repo.

# This will install `term-transcript` executable, which can be checked
# as follows:
term-transcript --help

This requires a Rust toolchain locally installed.

Minimum supported Rust version

The crate supports the latest stable Rust version. It may support previous stable Rust versions, but this is not guaranteed.

Crate feature: portable-pty

Specify --features portable-pty in the installation command to enable the pseudo-terminal (PTY) support (note that PTY capturing still needs to be explicitly switched on when running term-transcript commands). Without this feature, console app output is captured via OS pipes, which means that programs dependent on isatty checks or getting term size can produce different output than if launched in an actual shell (no coloring, no line wrapping etc.).

Crate feature: tracing

Specify --features tracing in the installation command to enable tracing of the main performed operations. This could be useful for debugging purposes. Tracing is performed with the term_transcript::* targets, mostly on the DEBUG level. Tracing events are output to the stderr using the standard subscriber; its filtering can be configured using the RUST_LOG env variable (e.g., RUST_LOG=term_transcript=debug).