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I usually use binenv (https://github.com/devops-works/binenv) to install binaries from releases. But maybe I misunderstood and this isn't the same.

nice! looks good, didn't know about it. I'll try it by installing it with my tool ;)

binenv supports versioning which is nice, and reads from a maintained list (https://github.com/devops-works/binenv/blob/develop/distribu...). mine is just simpler, a single script, and accepts any user/repo

I also wrote one of those scripts, bin/tarinstall (https://github.com/efrecon/bininstall). It even doubles as a GitHub Action to install stuff you need for your pipeline. binenv usually performs better and handles versions more easily, so ... I sometimes install binenv using bininstall and use binenv to install the rest... hmmm...

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