feat(alias): support alias for other version than default

[davinkevin]

Hi,

I maybe miss something, but I use jabba every day, and switching between v8 and v11 of java with Jabba requires to use the default name of each version (unless you defined one as the default).

It would be great to be able to do something like this jabba alias 11 [email protected] and then jabba use 11.

[mikethebos]

@shyiko @davinkevin Here we go: #557

[mikethebos]

@davinkevin Hey. Can you let us know if my pull request works for you?

[davinkevin]

Is there a release made with your PR?

[mikethebos]

@davinkevin No, but here is a copy of the binary to replace in .jabba/bin: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bh9b89s5spzor90/jabba?dl=0

[mikethebos]

@davinkevin That is a linux amd64 binary by the way.

[davinkevin]

I'm not a huge fan of running a binary distributed like this, for security reason.

So, to test it, I will have to build a VM and import it...

[mikethebos]

@davinkevin or compile my code from my PR... I used go1.13.4.

[mikethebos]

@davinkevin @shyiko used go1.11.4, so you may want to compile my PR with that.

[davinkevin]

It's perfect for me 👍. You can merge it

[jborgers]

Would be a nice improvement!
@davinkevin @mikethebos @shyiko : How is this going?

[mikethebos]

Works for me.

[benjamin-rood]

Should be closed?

[davinkevin]

Could be @benjamin-rood, but no release has been made since 2019, so I not able to see it in action sadly…

[benjamin-rood]

Could be @benjamin-rood, but no release has been made since 2019, so I not able to see it in action sadly…

How sad. I think we need to fork this project and take it over if it has been abandoned...

[willcohen]

Not abandoned, just a little undermaintained! I’ll try to find a little time tomorrow to work through some backlog. It’s definitely overdue for a release…

[ZaLiTHkA]

@willcohen, I'm pretty sure you've already put some thought into this, but might I suggest moving the alias files into a subfolder here..?

for example, creating a new default alias should create a file at %USERPROFILE%\.jabba\alias\default, rather than %USERPROFILE%\.jabba\default.alias. using the OP example, aliasing a JDK to 8 would then create a file at %USERPROFILE%\.jabba\alias\8 (which is totally valid, even on Windows).

I don't have any experience with Go, so I can't exactly jump into the code and make this change myself.... but I suspect this might make it easier to work with these alias files deep in Jabba itself.