Sharing a Quick Method to Create a TOML Plugin for Proto

[suin]

Hello moonrepo community,

I wanted to share a helpful guide created by my colleague, @kahirokunn, on how to quickly create a TOML file for moonrepo's proto tools. This tool is extremely useful and can save you a lot of time. Below is the translated version of his article (Japanese) for your convenience.

How to Create a TOML for moonrepo's proto tools in 30 Seconds

Prerequisite

This refers to moonrepo's proto tools, not gRPC's proto.

moonrepo's proto tools documentation

The assumption is that there are artifacts on GitHub.

1. List the assets

gh release view v4.44.1 --repo mikefarah/yq --json assets | pbcopy

2. Paste the content into the monnrepo-proto-tools-toml-creator using ChatGPT

ChatGPT's monnrepo-proto-tools-toml-creator

A TOML file like the one below will be generated. That's it.

name = "neovim"
type = "cli"

[platform.linux]
download-file = "nvim-linux64.tar.gz"
checksum-file = "nvim-linux64.tar.gz.sha256sum"

[platform.macos]
download-file = "nvim-macos-{arch}.tar.gz"
checksum-file = "nvim-macos-{arch}.tar.gz.sha256sum"

[platform.windows]
download-file = "nvim-win64.{ext}"
checksum-file = "nvim-win64.{ext}.sha256sum"

[install]
download-url = "https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v{version}/{download_file}"

[install.arch]
aarch64 = "arm64"
x86_64 = "x86_64"

[install.ext]
msi = "msi"
zip = "zip"

[resolve]
git-url = "https://github.com/neovim/neovim"

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I hope you find this tool as useful as I did. Feel free to check out the original article here and give @kahirokunn a follow for more insightful posts.

[milesj]

Awesome stuff! Cleaver using ChatGPT.

[shanipribadi]

I've also started creating minijinja template to make it easier to generate toml plugins
for now there's only one template, that I've seen applicable for many tools that are released using cargo-dist
https://github.com/shanipribadi/dot-proto/blob/main/templates/cargo-dist.jinja

usage would be

 minijinja-cli templates/cargo-dist.jinja -Dname=minijinja-cli -Drepo=mitsuhiko/minijinja -o a.toml -o toml-plugins/minijinja-cli.toml
 minijinja-cli templates/cargo-dist.jinja -Dname=ruff -Drepo=astral-sh/ruff -o a.toml -o toml-plugins/ruff.toml

planning to add more conditionals / options and other templates once I see more scenarios.