Today we have `mix escript.install` for installing escripts on the local
system.
It supports installing pre-built escripts from the local filesystem or via
HTTP.
One issue with this is that the project maintainers need to build and host
the
escripts themselves which goes against the conveniences we have built
around Mix
with Hex and the surrounding tooling such as HexDocs.
We propose to extend the `escript.install` task with support for building
and
installing projects via Git URLs or Hex package names. Examples of this
would be:
$ mix escript.install github my_project git_ref
$ mix escript.install git https://path/to/git/repo git_ref
$ mix escript.install hex phoenix_new
$ mix escript.install hex phoenix_new 1.2.3
This would fetch the project and its dependencies to a temporary directory
with
Mix' dependency tooling, build the project as an escript and install it on
the
local system.
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Eric Meadows-Jönsson
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