README.md

toolmgr

toolmgr helps you manage go tools using a tools.go file.

Usage

Create a tools.go file with at least the following content:

//+build tools

package tools

import (
	_ "github.com/fhofherr/toolmgr"
)

Add imports for the used tools to the above files as required. Then make sure to install toolmgr:

export GOBIN="$PWD/bin"
go mod tidy
go install github.com/fhofherr/toolmgr
"$PWD"/bin/toolmgr -bin-dir "$PWD/bin"

Whenever you add new tools to tools.go be sure to re-execute the above steps.

Makefile targets

In many cases it is convenient to use a Makefile to make the above easier. Simply add the following targets to your Makefile.

GO ?= go

## Change this to your liking:
TOOLS_BIN_DIR ?= bin
TOOLS_GO := tools.go

.PHONY: tools
tools: $(TOOLS_BIN_DIR)

## Dummy target to allow depending on all tools
$(TOOLS_BIN_DIR): $(TOOLS_BIN_DIR)/toolmgr

$(TOOLS_BIN_DIR)/%: $(TOOLS_GO)
	GOBIN=$(abspath ./$(TOOLS_BIN_DIR)) $(GO) install github.com/fhofherr/toolmgr
	$(TOOLS_BIN_DIR)/toolmgr -bin-dir $(TOOLS_BIN_DIR) -tools-go $(TOOLS_GO)

Whenever one of your other Makefile targets depends on one or more tools you can either depend on the $(TOOLS_BIN_DIR) target or on $(TOOTOOLS_BIN_DIR)/<toolname>.

License

Copyright © 2021 Ferdinand Hofherr

Distributed under the MIT License.