Running tooling from scripts

[lodinukal]

I want to be able to call rojo, darklua, etc from a script with arguments provided.

[daimond113]

The pesde repo is for pesde itself, the tooling is a separate repository. I'll transfer this issue there.

[CompeyDev]

pesde-tooling doesn't do anything special, so you should just be able to run the tool you want as usual with process.spawn and setup will be handled automatically.

Do note that the process stderr might contain warnings or installation progress bars from pesde-tooling.

[daimond113]

@CompeyDev I think the issue is valid. The OP is proposing to expose a library API for the tooling packages so that another Lune process doesn't have to get spawned while they're already in a Lune process. In my opinion that's a good addition.

[CompeyDev]

Oh! In that case, pesde/toolchainlib already exposes a runTool method, to which you can supply the ToolId of the tool you want to execute. For example, to run Rojo:

toolchainlib.runTool({
    alias = Option.None,
    repo = "rojo-rbx/rojo",
    version = Option.None -- defaults to latest
})

If you want to avoid spawning a separate lune process altogether, you can do:

toolchainlib("rojo-rbx/rojo")

[daimond113]

I think having the individual tooling packages expose a library export might be more fitting, though. Would allow user to avoid the direct dependency on toolchainlib as well as not having the versions desync (latest being different from the lockfile, for example).

[CompeyDev]

I wouldn't be fully opposed to that, but this is usually only useful if you don't already depend on the tool as a separate binary dependency; so the version desync shouldn't be an issue.

[daimond113]

Well, pesde allows you to have both library and binary exports, so you get the benefits in 1 go. Having a library export is useful for setups like Darklua + Rojo where it is common to have a script that runs Darklua to process files, Rojo to generate a sourcemap (for Luau LSP) and a serve session.