Giles Westwood

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I seem to be behind the times here, as well as other people who I cut n pasted from. Tar on mac and ubuntu seems to handle all the formats!

scratch that, seems that gnu tar and bsd tar are very different beasts

I agree that a dependency system might be useful in general but is a big decision. One way to think of this though is it's a response to the "github...

In the end I hacked together a wrapper function to install packages idempotently. I was astonished that it didn't work automatically, I even thought about giving up on the project...

Now that I've actually built my own set of golang binaries you might consider parsing .goreleaser.yml if it exists in the target repo as it may well contain things like...

infact .goreleaser.yml might do a lot of the work for us like knowing the binary name. We could if we wanted to be opinionated about it, provide some standards that...

I second just having these values as defaults. I've had a similar problem with vars overriding lookups:- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/25384

This is a common problem with ansible at the moment. The requirement to have dynamic defaults for different use cases which are still overridable at the group level:- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/23738 We...

These might act as a better set of defaults:- https://github.com/jberkus/annotated.conf/blob/master/annotated.csv