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Show HN: GitRel - Install and update binaries via GitHub Releases API

#1

Post by solairephantom » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

Show HN: GitRel - Install and update binaries via GitHub Releases API
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Re: Show HN: GitRel - Install and update binaries via GitHub Releases API

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Post by solairephantom » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

Author here. Please let me know if you have any suggestions and/or constructive feedback :)

Purpose of this "yet another package manager", is to keep all those single binary CLI tools updated on a system. In no way this project is designed to replace any of the full-fledged package managers like HomeBrew and others.

Re: Show HN: GitRel - Install and update binaries via GitHub Releases API

#3

Post by vanpythonista » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 8:00 AM UTC

This looks great! There’s also https://github.com/marcosnils/bin that works similarly that you might want to check out!

Re: Show HN: GitRel - Install and update binaries via GitHub Releases API

#4

Post by solairephantom » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 5:19 PM UTC

vanpythonista wrote: post #3

This looks great! There’s also https://github.com/marcosnils/bin that works similarly that you might want to check out!

Thank you! I'm checking out Marcos' project as well, yes, very similar, somehow I missed it while researching if anyone is already working in this direction, before starting on mine!