🛠 tool-tool

tool-tool - a light-weight meta-tool to version and install tool dependencies for your software projects

WARNING: Work in progress - comments, contributions and feedback welcome

tool-tool is simple way to automatically manage a project's tool dependencies. You should never have to worry about:

• Which version of the compiler do I need to use in this branch?
• What JDK is necessary for this build?
• Where do I get the correct version of node/yarn/maven/etc...?

• Why do I get weird errors when compiling old branches with new tool versions?

  How it works

• A configuration file (.tool-tool.v1.yaml) in the project repository root defines all the tool dependencies and where to download them.

• Small bootstrap binaries (tt, tt.exe) for all development platforms are also checked into your repository.
• All tool calls are then made through this bootstrap program. It parses the configuration file, downloads and caches the tools and executes the given command

A sample yarn invocation:

tt yarn install

Sample .tool-tool.v1.yaml

tools: - name: lsd version: 0.17.0 download: linux: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/releases/download/0.17.0/lsd-0.17.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz windows: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/releases/download/0.17.0/lsd-0.17.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip