Multiply scoop locations / Portable scoop

[hagaigold]

Hello,

Maybe this is out of the scope of the amazing scoop project, but I wonder if someone tried to use scoop for a limited scope.
Think of modules dependencies for a project that I want to be "locally" to the project instead to install it in the "all" user space.

A real-life example: Lua project scripts for Clink.
I aware about git submodules and alike- I just like the simplicity of scoop to fetch anything from git.

happy day

[rashil2000]

This will be achievable once #1813 gets fixed

[hagaigold]

This will be achievable once #1813 gets fixed

if I understand #1813- it is about create a %SCOOP_PATH% env variable instead of manipulating the user %PATH% again & again.

My Intention is to "localize" the apps to a project scope:
%USERPROFILE%\scoop\apps, projectA\scoop\apps, projectB\scoop\apps, etc..

[rashil2000]

Are you talking about multiple parallel installations of Scoop? Because that's not really possible with the current design.

[hagaigold]

this answers my question, thx.

[hagaigold]

Because that's not really possible with the current design

can we revisit this?

When next version #5424 will land, it is look doable with the portable config file (feat(config): Support portable config file #5369).

I did some changes to the install script, and from initial tests it is "kind" of working- see here install.ps1.
With this install script, I can setup more than one "scoop directories", using a new switch -Portable.

Of-course there are changes required in the scoop side:

• don't add shimsDir to path
• don't create startup shortcuts
• more ?

But let see first, if this is something that we want.
What am I missing here?

[hagaigold]

If anyone want to test/play with more than one scoop location on the same machine, I have it working.
For me it is just for: prod, dev & test environments, but I can imagine many other scenarios.

The work is based on #5369 & #1813 (no PR yet although it is working here).

To install a second location of scoop, you will need to use install.ps1 from here.
Clone/download it, and execute with all the three flags like in this sample:

.\install.ps1 -Portable -Develop -ScoopDir C:\CodeW\test-scoop

You will need to use repo: https://github.com/hagaigold/Scoop, with branch: feature/portable.
Navigate to your new scoop location (from -ScoopDir in previous command) into the shims directory:

.\scoop config scoop_branch "feature/portable"
.\scoop config

Note: The .\ before the scoop command is essential!

You should see something like that:

root_path    : C:\CodeW\test-scoop
scoop_repo   : https://github.com/hagaigold/Scoop.git
scoop_branch : feature/portable
portable     : True
last_update  : 2023-10-14T20:31:10.1599406+03:00

Next:

.\scoop update
.\scoop reset -h

If all gone well, you should have now, some new options for the reset command, try it:

.\scoop reset --connect

Your new scoop location should be setup in PATH and ready to use.
Restart the console - not everything is (yet) working as I wanted too.
Test it, no .\ this time :)

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