Link

This is a utility package that ships 1 (very simple) binary.

When developing stuff for JGET, you can specify 'binaries' - files that should be copied to the working directory. This puts them on the path for the shell, and so makes them very easy to run.

For a package (say pkg), the binaries are all files in the folder /packages/<pkg>/bin.

Link simply copies the files from the package store (for the specified package) to the working directory - as if the package had just been installed with JGET.

This is useful if you are actively developing a binary; you can edit the canonical version in the package store, and just link <pkg> it. No need to call the version in the package store, or to manually update the one in the working directory

Install

You can install link from JGET:

Usage

you can call link like so:

You can specify more than one package - link will handle all of them.

You can also put link into watch mode with the -w flag. When in watch mode, link will routinely check for updates, and re-copy files whenever necessary.

This includes creating new binaries, but not deleting old ones.

To get link running in watch mode do:

Again, you can specify more than one package if you like. We use the bg command here to run this in the background - so you can continue using this terminal.