FYI, Kash will soon be installable from Homebrew.

# kash_shell

[cedric]

FYI, Kash will soon be installable from Homebrew.

[yschimke]

Is there a personal github tap at the moment?

[cedric]

Not sure I understand this question

[yschimke]

Are you planning to submit to main home brew recipes. Or just from your own github tap? E.g. https://github.com/yschimke/homebrew-tap/blob/master/rsocket-cli.rb

[cedric]

Oh. I opened a pull request on homebrew-core, so Kash will soon be part of Brew

[cedric]

I didn’t realize there was such a thing as a “github tab”

[yschimke]

I think your doing the best thing for users. Just self publishing is trivial also.

[dh44t]

is it available on sdkman? I don’t use homebrew, (sorry to pester you)

[cedric]

Not yet, I will put it on sdkman too eventually

[dh44t]

Thank you!!

[cedric]

@dh44t My last brush with sdkman was a few years ago, and it didn't work out back then. Reading up on it right now, it still seems awkward to publish to. I can deal with the curl/gradle access, but I can't find any information on the shape of the zip file that needs to be published there. I remember sdkman being very strict on what that zip file needs to contain

[dh44t]

also, AFAIK, they’re writing a new version, replacing bash with Go

[dh44t]

dunno, it worth to work on it now, or just wait until they finish their rewrite

[cedric]

Yeah maybe

[cedric]

This made me wonder about writing a package manager like Homebrew but in Kotlin, and that would work for Windows/Linux/MacOS

[cedric]

because that fragmented package manager landscape is crazy 🙂

[cedric]

homebrew on MacOS, sdkman on Linux and kind of Windows, Chocolatey on Windows, etc...

[dh44t]

I use MacPorts and ASDF on Osx

[dh44t]

and sdkman too

[cedric]

Ah right, Macports too

[cedric]

Imagine one package manager, with your config possibly saved in the cloud so that any new computer you get receives the same installations automatically

[dh44t]

NewStandardComicXKCD.jpg

[dh44t]

it can be something that just wrap the others

[dh44t]

like recipies and abstract the imple

[cedric]

Not seeing the pic but I know the xkcd you are referring to obviously

[dh44t]

like, install erlang, gcc, kotlin

[cedric]

When I was writing the Kash recipe for Homebrew in Ruby, I cringed

[cedric]

I like Ruby (well used to), it's clean enough and I got to my goal pretty quickly

[dh44t]

and then the tool picks erlang from ASDF, gcc from Ports, kotlin from SDK and so on

[cedric]

but I really wanted to write that formula in Kotlin obviously

[dh44t]

https://github.com/sdkman/sdk

[dh44t]

Downgraded to spike

[cedric]

What does that mean?

[cedric]

Downgraded to spike?

[dh44t]

The next version based on Go

[dh44t]

so, no new rewrite coming in the pipeline

[cedric]

Right but what is a spike? I only know this term from the scrum vocabulary

[dh44t]

It should be the same, like an informal research?

[cedric]

A spike is an obstacle in my understanding, something that hasn't been resolved yet and is blocking

[cedric]

-shrug-

[cedric]

Bottom line is, sdkman not a priority right now 🙂

[dh44t]

I can have look, but not now, maybe in 2 weeks or so

[cedric]

Unsurprisingly, most of the code is

if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

😄

[dh44t]

I have tons of live templates on Goland to write all that boilerplate

[cedric]

Who needs parametric polymorphism when you have file generation polymorphism?

[dh44t]

The fun never stops!! 🤡