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Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub

31 pointsby notmarkelofflast Tuesday at 12:02 PM15 commentsview on HN

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figmerttoday at 10:42 AM

But why? Mise does this and more. It can install binaries from github, gitlab, uv, npm, and many more.

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ramon156today at 10:18 AM

If you're going to let an LLM write docs, at least let them write to the target of the dev. this README seems more internal, or more like a pitch, i suppose. It's weird.

pseufauxtoday at 10:24 AM

But isn't this built into uv already? Just point the sources table to GitHub.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/dependencies/#pr...

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bavarianbobtoday at 2:27 PM

This is pretty cool, I'm doing something similar for binaries I use on my computer - https://github.com/chasen-bettinger/conf/blob/main/binaries....

whinviktoday at 1:09 PM

This is pretty neat.

I am more used to uv than pixi or mise so it would be an easier addition to my workflow.

However I do think it would probably be nicer if this kind of approach used conda packages as a source of truth. So kind of like pixi but without pixi!

droelftoday at 11:21 AM

For pixi we also created a octoconda & a "github-releases" channel: https://prefix.dev/blog/octoconda-repackage-github-binary-re...

_ZeD_today at 10:04 AM

from TFA

    uv run ohbin run rg -- TODO src/
yeaaah
notmarkelofftoday at 12:16 PM

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jpollocktoday at 11:56 AM

Isn't this the problem bazel's supposed to solve?

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