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chim — Universal binary shims
Jeff Dickey
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2yr ago
Make tiny shim files that remotely fetch platform-specific binaries. This makes it easy to have a `./bin` directory in a repo that contains things like (for example) node, jq, and shellcheck.
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Jeff Dickey
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Would you use chim in your project? Any reasons it might be a poor fit?
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2yr ago