Commits on Aug 23, 2023

1. Add a new asdf direnv install command …

   Before this diff, it was difficult to install tools that depend on
   other tools. For example, here's what happens if I try to install a
   version of poetry on my machine:
   
       $ asdf install poetry 1.5.1
       No version is set for command python3
       Consider adding one of the following versions in your config file at
       python 3.10.2
       python 3.8.10
       curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination
   
       Cleanup: Something went wrong!
   
       48 /home/jeremy/.asdf/plugins/poetry/bin/install: POETRY_HOME=$install_path python3 - --version "$version" $flags
   
   This is because my system doesn't actually have a global `python` or
   `python3`. While I *could* install python with my system's package
   manager, I'd rather re-use my asdf-managed python if at all possible.
   Plus, poetry's installer doesn't even work with the 2 most popular ways
   of installing python systemwide on macOS (see [this poetry
   issue](python-poetry/install.python-poetry.org#24 (comment))
   and [this homebrew issue](Homebrew/homebrew-core#138159)).
   
   I know this doesn't solve the general build-dependencies issue: asdf is
   not a full package manager and I doubt it ever will become one. I do
   think this fairly minor change is worth implementing though, as it will
   solve a pain point my team has started running into ever since [homebrew
   changed they way they build binaries, which broke poetry
   install](Homebrew/homebrew-core#138159).
   
   As a happy side effect, we can now run `direnv reload` for the user,
   which saves them a step whenever they need to install missing
   dependencies.

   

   jfly committed Aug 23, 2023
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