feat(moon): (wip) support external subcommands #454
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This PR brings
moon
closer togit
andcargo
's behavior WRT external subcommands, that is,moon <subcmd>
will fall back to callingmoon-{name}
if such a binary is found inPATH
.This encourages exploration of tooling ideas without relying on
moon
's codebase itself while keeping a unified user experience. Famous examples includegit-branchless
,cargo-binstall
,cargo-chef
andcargo-zigbuild
.See https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/external-tools.html#custom-subcommands for more discussion on the rationale of this feature.