bingorun

This is a Production Draft ¯\(ツ)/¯ , it has no tests, no CI, no docs, no examples, etc. It's just a proof of concept whit good intentions and charm.

Tool for running bingo managed tools.

Requirements

• Go 1.18+
• bingo

Install

go install github.com/diegosz/bingorun@latest

Recommended: Pin the bingorun tool to your project using bingo. Do it via:

bingo get -l github.com/diegosz/bingorun@latest

Usage

Run you desired tool using the following command:

bingorun <tool-name> [args...]

It runs the specified tool, and (re)installs the tool if missing.

Example:

bingorun go-enum --marshal --nocase -f=<file.go>

It could be used in go:generate directives, for example:

//go:generate bingorun go-enum --marshal --nocase -f=$GOFILE

Instead of the tool name, you can use the following commands:

    -b, --bin       print the path of the tool binary
    -v, --version   print the version
    -h, --help      print this help message

Motivation

I like to use bingo to automatically manage the versioning of Go package level binaries required as dev tools for a project.

It's an awesome tool that even allows you to use some versioned commands from bigger projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus or Thanos without the use of a lot of replace statements (plus others like exclude or retract).

Also I like to keep the go:generate directives in the source code, close to the place that it belongs instead of having it far away in a makefile or some other script. For example:

//go:generate go-enum --marshal --nocase -f=$GOFILE

When using go:generate it also means that we will have defined 3 environment variables with the name of the go package, the filename where the directive is located and also the exact line the generate command was invoked from.

• $GOFILE: The base name of the file.
• $GOLINE: The line number of the directive in the source file.
• $GOPACKAGE: The name of the package of the file containing the directive.

We could install the tools using the bingo get -l symlink option to solve this case, but when jumping from one project to the other, we could have side effects by having another binary with same name or different version.

I completely agree with the notion of not including a run command within bingo, as mentioned here and here, but no one mentioned anything about not having a run command outside bingo. :-)

TODO

• Add tests.
• Add documentation.
• Add examples.
• Add continuous integration.

Credits

• bingo by @bwplotka, many thanks!