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luvi-builder

luvi-builder is a simple MIT-licensed shellfire script to make it easy to build luvi applications directly from Git. It's intended to be used as a git submodule. See luvi-builder-samples to see how it's used. You can fork luvi-builder-samples to bootstrap your own luvi-builder based project.

luvi-builder will attempt to download and cache a version of luvi from GitHub releases for the current OS and machine architecture. It does this by reading the link in lib/luvi/current, which should resolve to a version (including the leading 'v'). Downloading normally uses curl, but will fallback to a BusyBox friendly wget.

luvi-builder exists as an alternative to lit based applications. Its intention is to provide a GitHub-friendly model of development and dependency managerment (aka 'Check out and Go') and to support 'rsync' style deployment. Indeed, you should be able to just rsync a luvi-builder based project directly to a host once pulled from git (and submodules init'd). Or, you can build your project and then rsync the output (for even fewer dependencies).

Footnote

luvi-builder is also partly an emotional response to the Windows noise in a lot of luvi - semicolons as path separators, using zip as a package format (heck, even Java 9 has finally recognised that they goofed when they chose that) and the package manager, lit. lit by itself is fine, it's just, well, I detest language-specific package managers for software dependencies. They assume a certain way of working that's often not apt (get it). It all started with maven, and went downhill from there. Indeed, you don't really need even luvi-builder; 'built' luvi applications are just luvi + a zip concatenated on the end. There not even appropriate for some use cases (eg readonly file systems on low-power devices).