Consider to use a tool like mise (formerly rtx) or vfox to install tools in specific versions

[sschuberth]

For example for analyzing Python projects, sometimes a specific version of Python is required, which might not match what is available in the Docker image / on the system. Instead of e.g. building Docker images with configurable Python versions, we could also consider to install the required version of Python at runtime of (maybe as configured in a project's .ort.yml). While tools like pyenv exist to do that for Python, maybe using a generic tool like asdf for that purpose would make things cleaner.

[sschuberth]

Looks like asdf requires you to install plugin dependencies manually 😢

[sschuberth]

Looks like asdf requires you to install plugin dependencies manually 😢

And even with asdf-vm/asdf#757, plugin authors barely provide a help.deps script to list their dependencies for (semi-)automatic installation. Which makes it pretty hard to use asdf as an automation tool to setup other tools, IMO.

[sschuberth]

And because the setup of plugins is so cumbersome, the asdf-community has started to create Docker images for tool sets:

https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-ubuntu
https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-alpine

[sschuberth]

After some evaluations, I do not consider asdf to be a good fit, mostly because it does not really work out of the box.

[sschuberth]

Reopening as it might be worth looking at the asdf replacement https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx.

[sschuberth]

Reopening as it might be worth looking at the asdf replacement https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx.

For reference, rtx is now called mise.

Other alternatives:

• vfox (also see [Question] Comparison with mise version-fox/vfox#169)
• https://github.com/moonrepo/proto
• https://github.com/aquaproj/aqua