night.zig

Simple tool that just install & update zig nightly.

Usage

USAGE:
    nz <SUBCOMMAND>

SUBCOMMANDS:
    update            Update both zig nightly toolchain & nz itself
    update nightly    Update zig nightly toolchain only
    update nz         Update nz itself only
    cleanup           Remove outdated nightly toolchains
    version           Show nz version info
    help              Show this message

Dependencies

• bash
• curl
• jq
• basename
• tar
• find
• readlink

You will mostly have everything preinstalled except jq.

Installation

Run this in terminal:

curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsomedon/night.zig/main/nz" | bash -s -- _bootstrap

You can also optionally install shell completion scripts, you can find them under completions folder. For now only bash completion script is implemented.

Bash (using bash-completion on Linux)

On Linux, completion scripts for bash-completion are commonly stored in /etc/bash_completion.d/ for system-wide commands, but can be stored in ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions for user-specific commands. Install bash-completion package with your distributions' package manager first -- packages' name might vary, then:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions
mv nz.comp.bash ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/

You may have to log out and log back in to your shell session for the changes to take effect.

Bash (using bash-completion on macOS/Homebrew)

On macOS, homebrew stores bash-completion scripts within the homebrew directory. Install bash-completion brew formula, then put nz.comp.bash into $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d:

brew install bash-completion # or bash-completion@2 if your bash version is 4.2+
mkdir -p $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d
mv nz.comp.bash  $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/

Bash (not using bash-completion)

For quick installation, you can simply download the nz.comp.bash script somewhere on your machine, then source the script in your bash profile file.

Uninstallation

Both nz and nightly bins are installed in ~/.night.zig/, so just remove that folder:

rm -rf ~/.night.zig

If you installed shell completion scripts, remove them from their respective dirs as well.

Rant

I just started looking into zig yesterday, and I couldn't believe fine folks of zig community are manually grabbing the nightly bins without any tools? So here we have this one.

I didn't fully test architecture & os detection logic, only on x86_64-linux and aarch64-macos.

I may rewrite this little tool in zig when I get comfortable enough with zig, so that you don't need dependencies and what not. But no promise on that.

License

MIT