[ANN] RunBinary.jl: easily run binaries from YggDrasil

RunBinary.jl is now a Julia App

The most recent Julia version (1.12) supports so-called “apps”, and now RunBinary.jl can utilize this!

Run:

import Pkg; Pkg.Apps.add("RunBinary")

in Julia 1.12 to install the app, which then should become available from your terminal as:

runbinary ImageMagick.convert input.png output.jpg
runbinary SQLCipher database.db
runbinary difmap
...

for any binary available as a jll (mostly, from the Yggdrasil repo).

One time setup – to easily run any available binary in an ad-hoc way :star_struck:


Please report if anything doesn’t work, I’m new to the “julia apps” setup.

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