Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: cli_tool_audit
Version: 1.0.7
Summary: Audit for existence and version number of cli tools.
Home-page: https://github.com/matthewdeanmartin/cli_tool_audit
License: MIT
Keywords: cli tooling,version numbers
Author: Matthew Martin
Author-email: matthewdeanmartin@gmail.com
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# cli_tool_audit

Verify that a list of cli tools are available. Like a requirements.txt for cli tools, but without an installer
component. Intended to work with cli tools regardless to how they were installed, e.g. via pipx, npm, etc.

## How it works

You declare a list of cli commands and version ranges.

The tool will run `tool --version` for each tool and make best efforts to parse the result and compare it to the
desired version range.

The tool then can either output a report with warnings or signal failure if something is missing, the wrong version
or can't be determined.

There is no universal method for getting a version number from a CLI tool, nor is there a universal orderable
version number system, so the outcome of many check may be limited to an existence check or exact version number check.

Here is an example run.

```text
❯ cli_tool_audit
+-----------+-------------------------------------+-----------------+------------+-----------+
|    Tool   |            Found Version            | Desired Version | Compatible |   Status  |
+-----------+-------------------------------------+-----------------+------------+-----------+
|   python  |            Python 3.11.1            |     >=3.11.1    |    Yes     | Available |
|    java   | openjdk version "17.0.6" 2023-01-17 |     >=17.0.6    |    Yes     | Available |
|           |            OpenJDK Runtim           |                 |            |           |
|    make   |            GNU Make 3.81            |      >=3.81     |    Yes     | Available |
+-----------+-------------------------------------+-----------------+------------+-----------+
```

## Installation

You will need to install it to your virtual environment if tools you are looking for are in your virtual environment.
If all the tools are global then you can pipx install.

```shell
pipx install cli-tool-audit
```

## Usage

CLI usage

```text
❯ cli_tool_audit --help
usage: cli_tool_audit [-h] [--version] [--config CONFIG] [--verbose] [--demo DEMO] {read,create,update,delete,freeze} ...

Audit version numbers of CLI tools.

positional arguments:
  {read,create,update,delete,freeze}
                        commands
    read                Read and list all tool configurations
    create              Create a new tool configuration
    update              Update an existing tool configuration
    delete              Delete a tool configuration
    freeze              Freeze the versions of specified tools

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             Show program's version number and exit.
  --config CONFIG       Path to the configuration file in TOML format.
  --verbose             verbose output
  --demo DEMO           Demo for values of npm, pipx or venv
```

Note. If you use the create/update commands and specify the `--version` switch, it must have an equal sign.

Here is how to generate a freeze, a list of current versions by snapshot, for a lis tof tools. All tools will be
check with `--version` unless they are well known.

```shell
cli_tool_audit freeze python java make rustc
```

This is for programmatic usage.

```python
import cli_tool_audit

print(cli_tool_audit.validate(file_path="pyproject.toml"))
```

The configuration file lists the tools you expect how hints on how detect the version.

```toml
[tool.cli-tools]
# Typical example
pipx = { version = ">=1.0.0", version_switch = "--version" }
# Restrict to specific OS
brew = { version = ">=0.1.0", if_os="darwin" }
# Pin to a snapshot of the output of `poetry --version`
poetry = {version_snapshot = "Poetry (version 1.5.1)"}
# Don't attempt to run `notepad --version`, just check if it is on the path
notepad = { only_check_existence = true }
# Any version.
vulture = { version = "*" }
# Supports ^ and ~ version ranges.
shellcheck = { version = "^0.8.0" }
# Uses semver's compatibility logic, which is not the same as an exact match.
rustc = { version = "1.67.0" }
```

See [semver3](https://python-semver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/check-compatible-semver-version.html) for
compatibility logic for versions without operators/symbols.

See [poetry](https://python-poetry.org/docs/dependency-specification/) for version range specifiers.

See [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/a/13874620/33264) for os names.

## Demos

Demos will discover a bunch of executables as installed in the local virtual environment, installed by pipx or
installed by npm. It will then assume that we want the current or any version and run an audit. Since we know these
files already exist, the failures are centered on failing to execute, failing to guess the version switch, failure
to parse the switch or the
tool's version switch returning a version incompatible to what the package manager reports.

```bash
cli_tool_audit --demo=pipx --verbose
cli_tool_audit --demo=venv --verbose
cli_tool_audit --demo=npm --verbose
```

## How does this relate to package managers, e.g. apt, pipx, npm, choco, etc.

Package managers do far more than check for the existence of a tool. They will install it, at the desired version
and make sure that tools and their transitive dependencies are compatible.

What they can't do is verify what other package managers have done.

This captures your desired tools, versions and guarantees you have them by installing them.

```shell
# list everything available on one machine
pip freeze>requirements.txt
# install it on another.
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

This is the same thing, but for windows and .net centric apps.

```shell
choco export requirements.txt
choco install -y requirements.txt
```

There are similar patterns, for apt, brew, npm, and so on.

It would be foolish to try to create a package manager that supports other package managers, so features in that
vein are out of scope.

## Prior Art

- [tool-audit](https://github.com/jstutters/toolaudit)
- [dotnet-tool-list](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-tool-list)

