[crimson_banner_dark] Crimson is a version management tool geared towards people working with multiple versions of Crystal, compiler development and much more! With it comes a set of easy to use commands for managing and debugging/testing versions, giving you more time to focus on the code. Crimso…

There is no doubt that many people are looking for a version manager like Crimson. I want to give positive feedback, but I feel that I need to be direct with Devonte. The main reason I don’t want to use this version manager is that it depends on Cling instead of the standard library’s OptionParser. …

[image] kojix2: There is no doubt that many people are looking for a version manager like Crimson. Actually, I have some doubt. Or rather I’m wondering who needs a version manager (for Crystal and in general) and for what purpose. I don’t really use global version managers at all, neither fo…

[image] kojix2: The main reason I don’t want to use this version manager is that it depends on Cling instead of the standard library’s OptionParser. That’s quite a strong opinion. I dig the general sentiment of basing on stdlib as much as possible. However, option parsing is not a core featu…

[image] straight-shoota: Actually, I have some doubt. Or rather I’m wondering who needs a version manager (for Crystal and in general) and for what purpose. A older working project use Crystal 1.9.2, current Crystal version is 1.14.0, if want to play with that older project, you need do two t…

I agree, for projects I usually want a full environment (e.g. nix, docker) because crystal likely ain’t the only thing you need, and it’s better to have a replicated environment for anyone to start. Now, I guess a version manager can be useful when you need to test with a specific version of crysta…

[image] zw963: If I need to pick specific versions of a development tool, I put that into project-specific configuration via https://devenv.sh/ or similar tools. What are you talking about? same things as .tool-versions in asdf? you can’t assume that everyone likes NixOS. Yeah, I presume .…

[image] straight-shoota: The great thing about these tools is that they’re non-intrusive. If I happen to use a specific management tool, the config will automatically work. If not, it doesn’t disturb anything. And you could use configs for multiple managers in the same repo. Impressed, I thin…

No, you’re misinterpreting that. I’m talking about development environment managers in general. Some of them are based on nix, but the same applies to other base technologies as well.

[image] zw963: A older working project use Crystal 1.9.2, current Crystal version is 1.14.0, if want to play with that older project, you need do two things: Is there actually something preventing the 1.9.2 project from working with 1.14.0? Unless you managed to hit one of the documented brea…

Cling is not a new project. It was created just over 2 years ago out of my frustrations from OptionParser and macro-based CLI shards and was designed to incorporate the same features as the existing shards with a foundation for new, non-breaking changes to be built upon it. It’s had a lot of critici…

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