use mise to install CLI tools / manage their versions

[syphar]

mise got recommended to me multiple times over the last months, and having used it on my machine, I like it quite much.

It's much easier than the justfile _ensure_cargo_install, also covers other tools like actionlint, deno etc.

Also, we'll use the same versions, across CI & locally.

One caveat with the way I'm changing the gh workflows: there is no artifact caching any more. Though I don't thing that's a huge issue for npm, deno etc.

[syphar]

r? @GuillaumeGomez

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[GuillaumeGomez]

Thinking out loud: we added just to simplify development, and now we added mise to simplify just files. It's starting to be a lot of extra development tools for something we could do with cargo commands, no? ^^'

[syphar]

Thinking out loud: we added just to simplify development, and now we added mise to simplify just files. It's starting to be a lot of extra development tools for something we could do with cargo commands, no? ^^'

valid question of course.

How exactly would that look like with the tools we install via mise now?

( I would like to prevent that users have to install everything themselves)

[GuillaumeGomez]

It'd require to have a bigger build system. We'd run command like cargo lint and it'd run a lint.rs binary in the repository which would have the whole logic implemented inside etc. That's how rustc, clippy and rustc_codegen_gcc (for the ones I know of) are doing things. Big disadvantage: it requires more code and is likely less flexible. Advantage: no extra tools needed.

[syphar]

but that doesn't solve deno and others? or hadolint I want to add, or actionlint, or node, right?

[GuillaumeGomez]

No it doesn't. But at least, just and mise would not be needed anymore. In any case, not a blocker from me, just raising an eyebrow and potential future concerns.

[syphar]

For now I hope that this will solve all tool-install issues.

Until now it then was super annoying, every dev has to locally install, freeze the version somehow, and in CI the same.

Mise seems to solve both sides.

[GuillaumeGomez]

Then sounds good to me.