asdf-vm/asdf

asdf should auto install plugins for tool names it has in the short name repo

airtonix opened this issue · 3 comments

airtonix commented

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

it would be nice if i didn't have to keep this kind of thing around in every asdf repo to quickly help my team mates onboard: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/airtonix/bankdownloader/master/setup.sh

Describe the proposed solution

if a .tool-version file looks like :

nodejs 18.0.0

then asdf install should:

  • check if nodejs plugin is not installed
    • then it should attempt asdf plugin add nodejs
  • then proceed as normal

Describe similar asdf features and why they are not sufficient

the above script

Describe other workarounds you've considered

giving up technology and becoming a goat herder.

ethanjdiamond commented

+1 on this, it's annoying to have to manually add every plugin. I'd love a flag on asdf install to say "add any uninstalled plugin required".

I'd actually go one further and say .tool-version should support adding the repo for non-shortname plugins so you wouldn't need to run asdf plugin add ... at all. Something like this:

temporal 0.10.7 https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-temporal

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ben-509 commented

+1 on extending .tool-versions to support long names for plugins. That'd be extremely helpful for constructing a reproducible environment.

lilbobbytable commented

just use rtx. It has all of this.