well, perfectly is a bit much, it doesn't know how to dodge potholes yet and it sometimes misses exits/turns, but it's never done anything i would call dangerous

i used to be a bit bearish on skills—thinking that llms should just use --help, but i've come around on that. i think skills are a great way to describe higher level workflows that use multiple commands.

https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-09-05-introducing-packslip/

I assume you just mean normal [env] in mise.toml which is different, but this still is relevant to mise

EDIT: actually no, I think charlie is wrong on that point, he said the installers compile python but that only happens with python-build-based installers like pyenv. still, the fact those binaries lack portability is the real problem.

i'm also doing the same for ruby—maintaining the binaries myself which is becoming the default in mise next week: https://github.com/jdx/ruby

i'm a firm believer that pre-compiled, portable binaries are the best way to distribute runtimes and clis.

In my case I sometimes get a flurry of PRs from over-exuberant contributors, not necessarily low quality even! Using this I can at least put some back-pressure on that and help keep things more fair across my contributors.

tfrancisl was polite (even though I arguably wasn’t in the beginning) so I felt it important to return the favor.

I’d argue it’s a good time to play with features since if you have any ideas on how it might better fit your workflow I still have the ability to change the design before it’s largely frozen.

I thought it was the former but "just pulling a precompiled, dynamically linked binary and hoping it works" makes me think we're not on the same page since to me that has nothing to do with dotfiles.

The "exception" to that are linux package managers like apt-get and dnf which it calls under the hood. I think can't be an actual issue since it's not like you would ever use ubuntu/redhat without their system package manager installed.

I would make use of min_version. It's not perfect, but will at least help bring laggards along.

It’s for things like dotfiles, apt/brew packages, and LaunchAgents/systemd.

EDIT: I feel a little bad having hijacked this, as someone that hears a lot of opinions about devtools I can definitely say chezmoi is a darling of the community and I highly recommend checking it out.