Modern unix

[candrewlee14]

PR for #1
This will resolve:

• Package these tools for Linux distributions ibraheemdev/modern-unix#99
• A combined package collection / installer-script ibraheemdev/modern-unix#5
• prepare ubuntu meta-package to install all of those tools ibraheemdev/modern-unix#85

Pre-Requisites:

• add group to bulk add and bulk remove packages (resolved Make Group Add and Remove Commands webman#1)

Packages

• bat
• exa
• lsd
• delta
• dust
• duf
• broot
• fd
• rg
• ag (* no web-linked distributed binaries)
• fzf
• mcfly
• choose
• jq
• sd
• cheat
• tldr (* no web-linked distributed binaries, can be installed with npm)
• bottom
• glances (* no web-linked distributed binaries, can be installed with pip)
• gtop (* no web-linked distributed binaries, can be installed with npm)
• hyperfine
• gping
• procs
• httpie (* no web-linked distributed binaries, can be installed with pip)
• curlie
• xh
• zoxide
• dog

[candrewlee14]

broot (https://dystroy.org/broot/install/) has a tricky release format:

• download link has linux and windows releases for only latest version
• previous versions are zipped all together, not individually, on Github releases.

The options to handle this are:

1. add feature to unzip release bundle and select individual extracted folder
2. force latest download

I think forcing the latest download is probably my pick.
It's easy to implement and avoids wasting too much time on these one-off tricky cases.
There'd be an option added to the yaml file like force_latest: true, and the installation process would quit if the version argument is not the latest version.

Edit: Handled with force_latest option

[candrewlee14]

ag (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) is another tricky one. It doesn't really look like there are OS/Arch-specific downloads anywhere? Maybe I'm just not seeing them...

[candrewlee14]

choose (https://github.com/theryangeary/choose/) distributes an uncompressed binary directly. I need a way to handle that.

Edit: solved with latest webman commit adding is_binary option.

[AndrusGerman]

The Silver Searcher, @candrewlee14 maybe for these cases if you have to add a preparation label,
Something that allows you to run commands if some packages need to be compiled.

base_download_url: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/archive/refs/tags/2.2.0.tar.gz
requirement:
  - windows:
      - webman:mingw-ge # Example auto install webman package
  - linux:
      - system:gcc # Example alert please install external need package 

prepare_linux:
  - build step 1
  - build step 2
  - make
 
prepare_windows:
  - mingw-get install gcc
  - build step 2
  - make

[candrewlee14]

cheat has a strange format. On linux and darwin, it is a directly gzipped binary, but on Windows, it is a zipped folder that has a root dist folder that contains a cheat-windows-amd64.exe. Linux and darwin work correctly, and Windows installs but the binary link is cheat-windows-amd64 when it probably should be cheat.
I could probably add a bin_rename dictionary field that matches a regex and renames accordingly...any other ideas?

[candrewlee14]

The Silver Searcher, @candrewlee14 maybe for these cases if you have to add a preparation label, Something that allows you to run commands if some packages need to be compiled.

base_download_url: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/archive/refs/tags/2.2.0.tar.gz
requirement:
  - windows:
      - webman:mingw-ge # Example auto install webman package
  - linux:
      - system:gcc # Example alert please install external need package 

prepare_linux:
  - build step 1
  - build step 2
  - make
 
prepare_windows:
  - mingw-get install gcc
  - build step 2
  - make

@AndrusGerman Hmm, that's an interesting idea.
For security reasons and simplicity, I'd prefer to not allow package recipes to run commands.
I think if a package doesn't distribute a binary for a specific arch & platform, webman should not attempt to build from source. I may revisit this later, but for now, it'll be better to focus on building recipes for already-distributed binaries.

[candrewlee14]

glances has no web-linked distributed binaries. It is easily installable with pip though. This is a similar situation as with ag.

Now the question is: do we support running commands to install binaries (with dependencies), OR do not support running arbitrary package installation commands.

For now, I'm going to choose the latter. I think for security and simplicity, it's better to just support packages with distributed binaries. This makes sure that exec() is not called for any package script. It also means that we can guarantee all the installed binaries are located inside the webmanDir (default: ~/.webman).

[candrewlee14]

The majority of the packages are added, and the ones that aren't had no binaries but are installable with language-specific package managers. They also have use cases that are filled by other packages here:

• tldr: use cheat
• httpie: use curlie or xh
• glances & gtop: use bottom

Merged!