Vfox Backend experimental

Vfox plugins may be used in mise to install tools.

The code for this is inside the mise repository at ./src/backend/vfox.rs.

Dependencies

No dependencies are required for vfox. Vfox lua code is read via a lua interpreter built into mise.

Usage

The following installs the latest version of cmake and sets it as the active version on PATH:

$ mise use -g vfox:version-fox/vfox-cmake
$ cmake --version
cmake version 3.21.3

The version will be set in ~/.config/mise/config.toml with the following format:

[tools]
"vfox:version-fox/vfox-cmake" = "latest"

Default plugin backend

If you'd like to use vfox plugins by default like on Windows, set the following settings:

mise settings asdf=false
mise settings vfox=true

Now you can list available plugins with mise registry:

$ mise registry | grep vfox:
clang          vfox:version-fox/vfox-clang
cmake          vfox:version-fox/vfox-cmake
crystal        vfox:yanecc/vfox-crystal
dart           vfox:version-fox/vfox-dart
dotnet         vfox:version-fox/vfox-dotnet
elixir         vfox:version-fox/vfox-elixir
etcd           vfox:version-fox/vfox-etcd
flutter        vfox:version-fox/vfox-flutter
golang         vfox:version-fox/vfox-golang
gradle         vfox:version-fox/vfox-gradle
groovy         vfox:version-fox/vfox-groovy
julia          vfox:ahai-code/vfox-julia
kotlin         vfox:version-fox/vfox-kotlin
kubectl        vfox:ahai-code/vfox-kubectl
maven          vfox:version-fox/vfox-maven
mongo          vfox:yeshan333/vfox-mongo
php            vfox:version-fox/vfox-php
protobuf       vfox:ahai-code/vfox-protobuf
scala          vfox:version-fox/vfox-scala
terraform      vfox:enochchau/vfox-terraform
vlang          vfox:ahai-code/vfox-vlang

And they will be installed when running commands such as mise use -g cmake without needing to specify vfox:cmake.