Any support for installing gleam CLI applications directly in OS shell like Rust's cargo install?

[enkerewpo]

I just figured out that Gleam uses export erlang-shipment, etc. for package exports targeting Erlang, Javascript, Typescript. Moreover, the Gleam's package index seems to only support adding development packages for a project. I searched some Gleam CLI projects on Github and their solutions are writing the Makefile and use make install to design a customized "installation" on the OS (which also requires you to download the source code manually).

Will there be a CLI application installation support like Rust's cargo install(which can install packages that marked as [[bin]] or [[example]]?

I know that Rust compiles to native programs and Gleam's generated code runs on VMs which is probably making it different for designing the "cargo install" mechanism for Gleam.

[lpil]

Gleam doesn't compile to native or have a canonical runtime or one that it manages, so it's unclear how this could be officially supported.

You could use projects such as gleescript and JavaScript bundlers to create a single file containing all your compiled code, but you'd need to manage the runtime and installation still.

If you have any ideas for how this might work that would be cool!

[enkerewpo]

ok 🥹, I will investigate it if I have time and maybe figure out some mechanism