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Ben Overmyer

If it’s written in Go, what are the npx/m commands for?

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Yash • Edited

We published the package as a binary executable to npm.

Not everyone has go installed, and almost everyone has npm

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Ben Overmyer

Fair enough. Have you considered maintaining a Homebrew package for it? I'll try it out by installing with Go myself, but Homebrew would be easier, and less icky than npm.

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Yash

Yes.. We were gonna publish it on homebrew, scoop and conda-forge

but once we found out that you can publish binary executables on npm. We published it there are thought it should be enough.

And we also did tried publishing it on scoop but the request got rejected because the project was very nee