From fca1ef9dc61307236722e4292d5087cbf3e875ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AJ ONeal <coolaj86@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 04:29:29 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] update README.md

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@@ -8,22 +8,76 @@ Primary and community-submitted packages for
 - Should install to `./local/opt/<package>-<version>`
 - Should not need `sudo` (except perhaps for a one-time `setcap`, etc)
 - Follow the example of
-  <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/node>
+  <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/ripgrep>,
+  <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/node>, or
+  <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/golang>
 
-  - Note: the version handling is nasty, we'd like to move this to an API
+## Creating an Installer
+
+An install consists of 4 parts:
+
+1. Generate a list of releases by OS and ARCH
+   - For a Github releases example, see `ripgrep/releases.js` and
+     `_common/github.js`
+2. A bash version check (to skip downloading if already installed)
+   - typically just 1 unique line of bash
+3. A bash install (move files from the archive (zip, tar) to \$HOME/.local)
+   - also typically just 1 unique line of bash
+4. Update PATH
+   - the `webi_path_add` bash function will work for bash, zsh, and fish
+
+The `webinstall.dev` server uses the list of releases returned by
+`<your-package>/releases.js` to generate a bash script with most necessary
+variables and functions pre-defined.
+
+You just fill in the blanks.
+
+## Script API
+
+See `webi/template.bash`
+
+These variables will be set by the server:
+
+```
+WEBI_PKG=example@v1
+WEBI_NAME=example
+WEBI_HOST=https://webinstall.dev
+WEBI_RELEASES=https://webinstall.dev/api/releases/example@v1?os=macos&arch=amd64&pretty=true
+WEBI_CSV=v1.0.2,
+WEBI_VERSION=1.0.2
+WEBI_MAJOR=1
+WEBI_MINOR=0
+WEBI_PATCH=2
+WEBI_LTS=
+WEBI_CHANNEL=stable
+WEBI_EXT=tar
+WEBI_PKG_URL=https://cdn.example.com/example-macos-amd64.tar.gz
+WEBI_PKG_FILE=example-macos-amd64.tar.gz
+```
+
+```bash
+WEBI_TMP=${WEBI_TMP:-"$(mktemp -d -t webinstall-foobar.XXXXXXXX)"}
+```
+
+```bash
+webi_download           # Downloads the selected release to $HOME/Downloads/<package-name>.tar.gz
+webi_extract            # Extracts the download to /tmp/<package-name>-<random>/
+webi_path_add /new/path # Adds /new/path to PATH for bash, zsh, and fish
+```
 
 # Roadmap
 
 - Wrap release APIs to unify and expose
-  - [ ] Golang <https://golang.org/dl/?mode=json>
-  - [ ] Node <https://nodejs.org/dist/index.tab>
-  - [ ] Flutter
+  - [x] Golang <https://golang.org/dl/?mode=json>
+  - [x] Node <https://nodejs.org/dist/index.tab>
+  - [x] Flutter
         <https://storage.googleapis.com/flutter_infra/releases/releases_linux.json> -
         Started at
         <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/blob/master/flutter/versions.js>
   - [ ] git
     - Note: do all platforms expose tar/zip releases with the same URLs?
   - [ ] npm
-  - [ ] github (NOT until `git` is supported)
+  - [x] github (see ripgrep)
+  - [x] gitea (see serviceman)
 - [ ] Support git urls (i.e. `@github.com/node/node`)
   - (maybe `ghi node/node` for github specifically)
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