Usage on Windows / Mac

[bamarni]

Does this tool work on Windows / Mac? If so, could there be executables available in the releases?

Thanks

[ellotheth]

Unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac, so I can't test that one. It didn't even occur to me to try it on Windows, because I've never used a "pipe an installer script into PowerShell" installation method there. I can try it out next weekend (I'm currently traveling in Linux-land).

[ellotheth]

(For what it's worth, @dennisdegreef has done some development work with pipethis on a Mac, so you should at least get a passing test suite on that platform!)

[dennisdegreef]

Might be a bit overkill, but TravisCI can build for multiple platforms, including OSX. I could also take a look into integrating pipethis on Homebrew. I have only done this through Homebrew's 'taps'-concept before though.

I'm not too sure about Windows, but I've seen package managers for Windows as well (https://chocolatey.org/). I guess when bash support hits Windows, this should be possible?

I know a project that does build and distribute for multiple platforms, I can look into their build pipeline.
And yes, I did do some development on OSX, works like a charm :)

[bamarni]

I'm on Mac too, I wanted to give it a try but couldn't find any example in the doc, do you know any open source tool supporting pipethis?

Anyways thanks for the clarification :)

[ellotheth]

As far as I know, nothing's using pipethis yet. I've been using my personal server for testing, and you're welcome to try a test script to see how the identity verification works:

$ pipethis https://ramblinations.com/signed.detached

You can also run an unsupported script (like the rvm installer, or anything similar) with the --no-verify flag:

$ pipethis --no-verify --inspect https://get.rvm.io

This might be an OSX build. If you get a chance to try it, would you let me know if it works?

[dennisdegreef]

2016/06/18 17:58:55 Signature verified 👍

[ellotheth]

Cross-compiling for OSX from Linux is straightforward:

$ GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 make dist

I'll start pushing up OSX builds for future releases. I don't think it's worth baking into the Makefile.

Closing this for now, and we can revisit Windows 10 if/when Bash support hits. (I know people are already building apt implementations, but I'm pretty skeptical that straight shell script installers will Just Work (tm).) Thanks to you both for the research and testing!