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proto v0.18 - List installed tools and configure HTTP client

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Miles Johnson
Miles Johnson
Founder, developer

Today we've got a small release that includes some helpful features.

New proto tools command​

Are you curious what tools you have installed? And more specifically, which versions? What about configured aliases? Until now, you had to manually check the ~/.proto/tools directory for this information, but now, you can simply run proto tools to get a list of all installed tools.

This command will list all tools that have been installed, along with their installed versions, relevant timestamps, available aliases, and store location.

$ proto tools
go - Go
  Store: ~/.proto/tools/go
  Versions:
    1.20.0 - installed 08/24/23, last used 09/18/23
    1.20.2 - installed 01/01/70, last used 09/18/23, default version

node - Node.js
  Store: ~/.proto/tools/node
  Aliases:
    ~20 = stable
  Versions:
    18.0.0 - installed 09/03/23, last used 09/18/23, default version
    18.14.0 - installed 09/04/23, last used 09/04/23
    18.17.1 - installed 09/04/23, last used 09/04/23
    19.0.0 - installed 09/03/23
    20.0.0 - installed 09/03/23
    20.6.0 - installed 09/04/23, last used 09/18/23

This information can also be represented as JSON by passing the --json flag.

New [http] user settings​

Furthermore, we've added a new [http] setting to ~/.proto/config.toml that allows you to configure aspects of the HTTP client, which is primarily used for downloading tools.

This may useful if you're behind a proxy, a VPN, or corporate network, and certain requests and certificates are blocked.

~/.proto/config.toml
[http]
proxies = ["http://intra.net/proxy"]
root-cert = "/path/to/root/cert.pem"

Index for third-party tools​

Now that our TOML and WASM plugins have stabilized, we felt the time was right to start working on a third-party index, a registry of all available tools. We've updated the official Supported tools documentation to now include third-party tools.

At this time, the list of tools is powered by a JS/JSON object, which can be found here. In the future, we may move this to a database, add filtering, sorting, and everything else necessary for showcasing tools maintained by the community!

Other changes​

View the official release for a full list of changes.

  • For TOML plugins, we updated the schema internally to be represented as JSON instead of TOML, which may cause breakages depending on a version mismatch between proto and the plugin.