bevry/dorothy

Suggestion: setup-util support for streamlined {bin,man,lib,etc} extraction

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edmcman commented

I'm creating a command to setup Ghidra. Ghidra is distributed as a zip file that is extracted somewhere and then run with a script. You need all the files, unfortunately. It's similar to gradle's binary distribution if you've used that.

Is setup-util compatible with such a package? It seems like most of the DOWNLOAD options assume the utility is going to be a single file.

balupton commented

Sure, setup-util-bash unzips and builds. Others unzip multiple files, and others unzip a single file. If you have vscode you can run dorothy edit then file search for DOWNLOAD_ARCHIVE_GLOB

balupton commented

If it has github assets, you can use this structure instead:
https://github.com/bevry/dorothy/blob/master/commands/setup-util-sd

edmcman commented

Thanks, I played with these a bit. If I understand correctly, sd downloads a zip and extracts a single file. bash downloads a zip, extracts a bunch of files and builds, but only installs a single file. Ghidra needs to have multiple files installed. The ghidraRun file/script is used to start it, but that's just a small script.

Here's what I'm using now: https://github.com/edmcman/dotfiles/blob/main/commands/setup-util-ghidra

Basically the support files have to live somewhere. I don't see a way to accomplish this now with setup-util. Maybe it's rare enough that it's not needed.

balupton commented

From memory there are existing utilities that would benefit from having other files extracted as well, but yeah, the download technique in setup-util doesn't currently natively support that. The complexity is that I'm not sure XDG supports such extractions, so they would have to go to /usr/local or whatever, which sometimes requires sudo.

If we get a few more utilities needing such, will make sense to do a PR.

Marking as a suggestion.

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