Global install doesn't place commands in PATH

[doubledup]

From the docs, bun install --global cowsay should make cowsay available. Instead I get fish: Unknown command: cowsay, even after asdf reshim and starting a new shell.

This is in fish shell 3.6.1, kitty 0.30.1 and macOS 14.1. The same error occurs in the default Terminal 2.14 (452), and in bash 5.2.15(1)-release (aarch64-apple-darwin22.1.0) and zsh 5.9 (x86_64-apple-darwin23.0). Combinations of Terminal with bash & zsh also produce this error.

[cometkim]

Yep, I never implemented that feature. but has a plan to support it as described in #14 (comment)

[doubledup]

Thanks! 🙏

Looks like the only thing missing for this is the shell rc file edits made by the bun install script. You mentioned this in the linked comment: "... users have to manually configure the PATH."

A workaround for anyone running into this is to run the bun install script to get the changes to your shell rc file:

asdf plugin remove bun
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
rm -rf ~/.bun/
asdf plugin add bun

The uninstall step comes from the uninstall issue in bun.

[cometkim]

@doubledup Just add ~/.bun/bin to your PATH then you can use globally installed binaries

[cometkim]

And even you can customize your global installation path, see https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/bunfig#install-globalbindir

[cometkim]

However, I've changed my mind, I think it's not a role of this asdf plugin.

I think the current behavior of Bun is not suitable for managing global installations. See https://gist.github.com/cometkim/eb2842d67b40e583e4886e9b897a6af0

Maybe you can request the upstream to change its behavior to be more sensible

[cometkim]

just filed a ticket to upstream oven-sh/bun#6928

[cometkim]

Bun has the problem of not being well suited to handle global installations (See oven-sh/bun#6928)

I could override the behavior like the asdf-nodejs plugin does for npm, but I believe that's not the correct move. I would not recommend managing global installations via Bun until this is discussed upstream.