How to install a self-extracting archive from github?

[fcoelho]

I'm trying to install makeself but the github releases only have the regular zip/tar.gz source code and one real asset, which is a self extracting archive.

As far as I understand, the github backend can't work with that. And to further complicate matters, I need two files from the self-extracting archive to make makself work, so the http backend can't deal with it either.

I've tried making a small plugin available locally in .mise/plugins/makeself but adding it to the mise config as:

[plugins]
makeself = "file://./.mise/plugins/makeself"

doesn't work because apparently the plugin expects to be its own github repo.

Any ideas on how to make this tool work, apart from publishing it to one of the registries mise can use?

[risu729]

This is hacky, so I don't suggest it, but you can place the vfox plugin (or asdf plugin maybe?) in ~/.local/share/mise/plugins.
Again, I suggest creating a GitHub repository for the plugin, but I think this will work.