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Add a shorthand checksum install rust ? #13
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It would be convenient to have a shorthand like checksum install rust. A couple options to do this..
A. Hardcode the checksums in the .sh file.
B. Have a separate file with a list of names and checksums that can be used as a lookup.
This probably beats referencing the checksums manually in the readme.
Not sure this is a good idea, so leaving it here for any comments.
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tabbyrobin commentedon Apr 23, 2025
I think that once you start to implement aliases like that, you've taken a big step toward becoming a full-fledged package manager. Not sure if that is in scope or out of scope for checksum.sh.
In any case, I think this is a very interesting idea. Here are a couple of projects which I think are relevant:
That said, I'm actually not quite satisfied with either of those two approaches. I have some ideas for a different approach (not necessarily a replacement -- more complementary) and I'm working on a proof of concept, but the source is not uploaded anywhere yet.