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Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub

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37 pointsnotmarkeloff17 comments

But why? Mise does this and more. It can install binaries from github, gitlab, uv, npm, and many more.

Agreed, this looks like a far more limited mise alternative that still requires a completely different tool to run.

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding the private binaries concept - what advantage does gzipping and encrypting the binary and putting it in an unlisted gist have over just storing a release in a private git repo only I can access with my PAT or key? Seems needlessly complicated.

mise ftw!

Heck, mise has an HTTP backend that can install binaries from any URL. I use this to manage Atlassian CLI, whose official Windows binary is not on winget.

TIL about Mise; looks nifty.

If you're going to let an LLM write docs, at least let them write to the target of the dev. this README seems more internal, or more like a pitch, i suppose. It's weird.

But isn't this built into uv already? Just point the sources table to GitHub.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/dependencies/#pr...

AFAIK uv installs python packages only. This fetches and runs binaries from Github.

Ah. Missed that. Thank you

I’m this is not true, uv + wheels you can install binaries

This is pretty cool, I'm doing something similar for binaries I use on my computer - https://github.com/chasen-bettinger/conf/blob/main/binaries....

For pixi we also created a octoconda & a "github-releases" channel: https://prefix.dev/blog/octoconda-repackage-github-binary-re...

This is pretty neat.

I am more used to uv than pixi or mise so it would be an easier addition to my workflow.

However I do think it would probably be nicer if this kind of approach used conda packages as a source of truth. So kind of like pixi but without pixi!

Somewhat similar: https://github.com/facebook/dotslash

from TFA

    uv run ohbin run rg -- TODO src/

yeaaah

Isn't this the problem bazel's supposed to solve?

there are a few projects not using bazel

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