The current CocoIndex CLI is provided as part of users' application by cocoindex.main_fn() (as described here).

We may want to create a standalone CLI. It will provide the following benefits:

• A little bit easier to type. e.g. cocoindex update main.py instead of python main.py cocoindex update.
• Provide a more natural entrypoint for global tasks, e.g. list all flows by cocoindex ls.
• Less intrusive for users own application logic - they can more freely take CLI arguments upon their requirements, e.g. if their CLI takes a filename as argument like main.py $FILENAME, in the current way cocoindex cannot be the filename.

Existing example of standalone CLI taking users module as input: FastAPI CLI

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