feat: add install script #64
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Add a POSIX-compliant shell installation script for the tasker binary, adapted from the localias project. This script provides a convenient way to install tasker without requiring Go to be installed. Features: - Automatic platform and architecture detection - Support for Linux, macOS, and Windows - Automatic extraction of tar.gz/zip archives - Version selection (latest or specific version) - Custom installation directory - Non-interactive mode for CI/CD environments - Comprehensive error handling and user feedback The script supports the following platforms and architectures: - Linux: amd64, arm64, 386, armv6 - macOS (Darwin): amd64, arm64 - Windows: amd64 Also updated README.md with detailed installation instructions including examples for various use cases. Helpful for installing on GitHub Actions and other Linux environments.
The tar.gz and zip archives contain a parent directory with the binary inside. Updated extraction logic to: - Use --strip-components=1 for tar.gz to extract without parent dir - Move contents up one level for zip files to handle nested structure Tested full installation process and verified binary works correctly.
Instead of listing all options inline, direct users to --help flag. This reduces maintenance burden and keeps documentation in sync.
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thanks for PR. i ran the installer and it worked in my linux amd64. but how to verify in other flavors or OSes?
currently, since tasker is now a binary in /usr/local/bin, tasker -h with below output seems a bit lacking:
Usage of tasker:
-file string
The task file in crontab format (without user)
-out string
The fullpath to file where output from tasks are sent to
-shell string
The shell to use for running tasks (default "/usr/bin/bash")
-tz string
The timezone to use for tasks (default "Local")
-until int
The timeout for task daemon in minutes
-v Show version
-verbose
The verbose mode outputs as much as possible
basically a short intro before usage would be great if that's possible natively
| # Test if a location is writable by trying to write to it. Windows does not let | ||
| # you test writability other than by writing: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1999988 | ||
| test_writeable() { | ||
| path="${1:-}/test.txt" |
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should we use random filename? so it won't remove the preexisting test.txt file later
| error "Error reading from prompt (please re-run with the '--yes' option)" | ||
| exit 1 | ||
| fi | ||
| if [ "$yn" != "y" ] && [ "$yn" != "yes" ]; then |
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how about different alias/case of yes: YA, ya, ja, yea etc
so i think if first char of $yn in lowercase is y or j then it is positive
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feat: add bash shell install script i think this commit message prefix must be |
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closing because pr author isn't interested to put in any more effort than AI's readymade solution. |
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Just busy with other things :) I'll come back to this later, if that's ok. |
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that's not ok. but encouraged and welcomed. ;) |
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I'm having fun with the free claude credits. Need to review + test this further, but I've used this script in other projects and it's worked great.