A wrapper for earthly in the vein of gradle-wrapper.
Earthlyw works by adding an executable to your project, that will download the appropriate earthly binary and use that for running earthly commands.
The benefit of using earthlyw instead of just adding the earthly binary to the project, is that earthlyw works cross-platform, on all platforms/architectures with a working bash shell (which should include most Linux and Mac OS setups, as well as some Windows machines).
If you already have earthly installed, you can run earthly --no-cache -a github.com/mortenlj/earthlyw:main+wrapper/earthlyw in your project directory, and the wrapper will be added.
For a manual installation, go to https://github.com/mortenlj/earthlyw/releases/latest and download the latest executable, and add it to your project.
Upgrading to the latest earthlyw is just a matter of running the installer again, but this time using the wrapper:
./earthlyw --no-cache -a github.com/mortenlj/earthlyw:main+wrapper/earthlyw
Using earthlyw is as easy as using ./earthlyw everywhere you would normally write earthly.
Examples:
./earthlyw github.com/earthly/hello-world:main+hello
Some times it can be tedious to type a relative path to the earthlyw binary.
But since it is included in the repo, adding it to your PATH isn't an option either.
If you use earthly or earthlyw a lot, it can some times be hard to remember which repo has a wrapper, and which repos just assume you have earthly on your PATH.
For these cases, another bash-script is available: ew.
It is designed to be plopped into any directory on your PATH.
When executing this script, it will search upwards for an Earthfile, and an earthlyw.
In the end, it will execute your command using either the found wrapper, or the earthly command, in the directory containing the found Earthfile.
For now, earthlyw will just use the latest version of earthly.