Instead of requiring the user to install the right version of the tool in their
.bin folder, create a shim that automatically runs the right version of the
tool. This has several benefits:
- it works out of the box with no setup required (the tool will be automatically
downloaded and compiled the first time it is used)
- no work needed for developers when we bump the golangci-lint version
- it works in working copies that are used in different environments (e.g.
locally on a Mac, or inside a dev container)
Co-authored-by: kyu08 <49891479+kyu08@users.noreply.github.com>
This has several benefits:
- it's less code
- we're using the same mechanism to generate all our auto-generated files, so if
someone wants to add a new one, it's clear which pattern to follow
- we can re-generate all generated files with a single command
("go generate ./...", or "make generate")
- we only need a single check on CI to check that all files are up to date (see
previous commit)
As far as I can tell, there's not much of a difference in behavior between the
two. The advantage of doing it this way is that you can attach a debugger to the
running lazygit process; see next commit.
