basalt-rs/bedrock

Allow specifying commands as an array of arguments

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#56 opened on Mar 16, 2026

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Description

Currently, all commands are accepted as a single string. This requires shell escaping in order to work correctly. We should additionally allow commands to be passed as an array of strings, where the first item is the program name and the remaining items are the arguments.

This should be done in such a way that the parsing returns an error if the command array is empty.

compile = "rustc -o solution solution.rs"

should be equivalent to

compile = ["rustc", "-o", "solution", "solution.rs"]

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Research direction
Investigate how command strings are currently parsed, then extend the parser to accept arrays of strings while maintaining backward compatibility with string format. Ensure array validation returns error if empty.
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rust
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backend
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2
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75