started to add tools for components management

@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ let Context = function( ctx ) {
             // TODO insert here component factories
             
             for (p in module.default) {
+                if ( p === "__arcs__")
+                    continue;
                 if (module.default.hasOwnProperty(p)) {
                     Context.currentContext.setFactory(p,module.default[p]);
                 }

+/** 
+ * This tool is intended to build a description of a repository of components
+ */
+
+import process from 'node:process';
+import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+
+/** 
+ * possible arguments:
+ *  - "-o" with output file
+ *  - "-d" with input directory
+ *  - "-h" or "--help" displays usage
+ */
+
+let outputFile = "repos.json";
+let inputDir = ".";
+
+const usage = function(idx) {
+    console.log(path.basename(process.argv[1])," [-o output_file] [-d component_dir] [-h]");
+    console.log("\toutput_file is the generated repository json file (by default 'repos.json')");
+    console.log("\tcomponent_dir is the directory storing components (by default '.')");
+    return 0;
+};
+
+
+const helpers = {
+    '-h' : usage,
+    '--help': usage,
+    '-o' : function(idx) {
+        outputFile = process.argv[idx+1];
+        return 1;
+    },
+    '-d' : function(idx) {
+        outputFile = process.argv[idx+1];
+        return 1;
+    }
+};
+
+for (let i=2; i<process.argv.length; i++) {
+    if (helpers.hasOwnProperty(process.argv[i])) {
+        let shift = helpers[process.argv[i]](i);
+        i+=shift;
+    }
+}
+
+
+/** 
+ * 
+ *
+ *
+ */
+const list= {};
+
+