The official asdf-zig can only support what versions are listed at https://ziglang.org/download/index.json, which are all versions either official or cutting-edge master. But as we know zig is evolving fast, sometime I need to stick with a specific version for a while, like 0.12.0-dev.2139+e025ad7b4. This is easy job if just download it and make it available to my path. But if there are multiple projects using different custom zig version, manual changing will be tedious.
So I start to miss asdf, the one shop for managing many different new language runtimes, and luckily there is asdf-zig, but unluckily it supports no custom versions.
So I just make my fork and adjust it a bit for my usage.
essentially my fork replaces the official asdf-zig. To install it, need to remove the old one, just
asdf plugin remove asdf-zig
asdf plugin add zig https://github.com/liyu1981/asdf-zig.gitwill replace your version with mine :)
then create a custom version file like below in ~/.asdf/custom/zig
mkdir -p ~/.asdf/custom/zig
echo "{\"0.12.0-dev.2139+e025ad7b4\": {}}" > ~/.asdf/custom/zig/versions.jsonand after that you will find your custom version is available in asdf commands. See this demo video for how I use it in life
currently it is just naive :)
{
"0.12.0-dev.2139+e025ad7b4": {},
"0.12.0-dev.1828+225fe6ddb": {},
"<more zig dev versions>": {}
}you get the idea, only the key part is relevant, the value part is not, so I just keep a simple '{}' to fool the underlying json parser (from original asdf-zig).
commit a789504 added this feature! just do asdf list-all zig and asdf install zig <version>, like follows
I hope this helps!
Zig plugin for asdf version manager
asdf plugin-add zig https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-zig.gitCheck asdf readme for instructions on how to install & manage versions.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.