Catalog with only one alias

[aghasemi]

Hi,

When a catalog has only one alias (e.g. in a repo dedicated to only one JBang script), is there a shortcut way to install it with jbang, instead of writing something like jbang app install mycmd@myrepo/mycmd which has a little bit of redundancy?

Thanks

[maxandersen]

No, not currently.

Not sure what the rule would be but open for suggestions.

[maxandersen]

And what would it do ?

Pick at random an alias ?

Btw. You do realize you can have a jbang-catalog repo so it just becomes myapp@hithubuser ?

[quintesse]

Pick at random an alias ?

@aghasemi mentions "when a catalog has only one alias".

And if there are multiple aliases we could probably define a default name, like "main" or "app" or "default" etc.

Thing is that I'm not sure if we could get rid of the @ anyway. It would look very much like a normal file or alias which would mean that each time somebody mistypes a word we'd be contacting GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. That starts to look like a potential DDOS attack to me 😅

[aghasemi]

@quintesse Yes, I meant exactly this.

I see your point, then we can just keep @ if it helps. I am not sure if a default name should be there, as it is the name of the command that will be added to the path (no?), hence different for nay script. If needed, we can "assume" that the command name is the name of the script file when no alias name (or a 'default' one) is given.

[quintesse]

Aha, I see now, you want to be able to do jbang app install @somerepo which would then automatically install the command with the proper name, eg somecmd.

It's not much shorter/easier than jbang app install somecmd@somerepo, though, especially given the fact you're probably just running it once and never again.

[aghasemi]

Fair enough :D