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[coolaj86]

Todo: I could write a script that determines much (if not most) of this heuristically and auto-generates new installers based on duck-typing of the package contents.

Note: the canonical name should be the name of the exe you type: go, cargo, node, dashd.
The alternate name, if any, should be the alias: golang, rustlang, nodejs, dashecore.
(note: this gets weird for rust and rustcc... but I think we just go with it)

• bin: sigle binary
• 📦: a self-contained package (opt-style with ./man, ./share, ./bin, etc)
• 🔗: a link (alias) to another package, or using another package
• 📝: custom / bespoke see documentation
• ⚠️: non-standard or other caveats, see documentation or installer

Package	Type	tar (zip)	xz	bare	man	goreleaser	github	msvc
arc (archiver)	bin	-	-	✅	-	-	✅	-
AtomicParsley	bin	✅					✅⚠️	⚠️
bat	bin	✅			⚠️			⚠️
caddy	bin	✅
cmake	📦	✅			✅
comrak	bin	-	-	✅	-	-	✅	-
dash	🔗	✅			✅
dashcore	📦	✅			✅
dashd	🔗	✅			✅
dash-cli	🔗	✅			✅
dash-wallet	🔗	✅			✅
deno	📦							⚠️
delta	bin							⚠️
fd	bin							⚠️
flutter	📦	✅			?		❌
gitea	bin	-	-	✅	-	-	✅	-
go	📦⚠️	-	-	-	-	-	-
golang	🔗	✅			✅		❌
hexyl	bin							⚠️
jq	bin	-	-	✅	-	-	✅	-
koji	bin							⚠️
node	📦	✅			✅		❌
npm	🔗	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ripgrep	🔗	-	-	-	-	-	-
rg	⚠️	✅			⚠️			⚠️
rust	🔗	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
rustlang	📝⚠️	-	-	-	-	-	❌
cargo (todo)	🔗	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
rustup (todo)	🔗	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
sd	bin							⚠️
shfmt	bin	-	-	✅	-	-	✅	-
ssh-adduser	📝⚠️	-		✅			📂
ssh-pubkey	📝⚠	-		✅			📂
watchexec	bin							⚠️
zig	📦	✅	-	-	-	-	❌	-
zoxide	bin							⚠️

⚠️ has special structure or behavior

Single Binaries

• caddy
• jq (raw exe)

Full, but self-contained packages:

• cmake
• dashcore
• flutter
• node
• golang

Special hybrid

• gitea
• rg (?)

TODO: Make table

• exe vs folder
• packaged / compressed vs exe
• man pages
• goreleaser
• alias
• multiple commands

[coolaj86]

Closing because this is sticky / documentation.