How to run installed tools?

[cszatmary]

After I install tools with bingo get what is the intended way to run them?

It would be nice if there was a command where given a tool name it would find the path to the installed tool and execute it.

Example of what this might look like:

bingo run golangci-lint run

[bwplotka]

Hey, sorry for the delayed response, I am lagging behind GH notifications 😱

This is a valid question overall. I think it was not well explained. I improved docs here: https://github.com/bwplotka/bingo/pull/56 @cszatmary does it make sense? 🤗

There are some tools that wanted to support something like run command, but I believe there is no need for something like this. We can totally use native OS tools like shell and its variable to achieve the same, no? See this doc.

To sum up, I see 3 reasons why using the native way might be better:

• We don't reproduce work / reinvent the wheel
• Supporting run well actually is not that easy to write. Passing arguments by CLI to underlying shell execution is actually incredibly hard (trust me, I tried in my previous job). There are thousands of nuances (e.g how to differentiate between bingo flags and passed flags? -- is the native way, but it also means you cannot use the same commands anymore.)
• Would nice to maintain in bingo [do one thing, and do it well] philosophy (https://hackaday.com/2018/09/10/doing-one-thing-well-the-unix-philosophy/)

Hope this makes sense (:

[wmcnamee-coreweave]

ya, I'm in the same boat here. I just found out about this tool, which seems good, except it would be great if symlinks were made instead of having to source the variables.env and use all caps TOOL_NAME. I essentially need tool installs to be transparent.