Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub

6/5/2026 at 10:42:26 AM

But why? Mise does this and more. It can install binaries from github, gitlab, uv, npm, and many more.

by figmert

6/5/2026 at 2:31:30 PM

Heck, mise has an HTTP backend that can install binaries from any URL. I use this to manage Atlassian CLI, whose official Windows binary is not on winget.

by magnio

6/5/2026 at 11:24:39 AM

Agreed, this looks like a far more limited mise alternative that still requires a completely different tool to run.

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding the private binaries concept - what advantage does gzipping and encrypting the binary and putting it in an unlisted gist have over just storing a release in a private git repo only I can access with my PAT or key? Seems needlessly complicated.

by nulldomain

6/5/2026 at 3:24:35 PM

TIL about Mise; looks nifty.

by christoff12

6/5/2026 at 12:41:41 PM

mise ftw!

by sscaryterry

6/5/2026 at 10:18:27 AM

If you're going to let an LLM write docs, at least let them write to the target of the dev. this README seems more internal, or more like a pitch, i suppose. It's weird.

by ramon156

6/5/2026 at 10:24:57 AM

But isn't this built into uv already? Just point the sources table to GitHub.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/dependencies/#pr...

by pseufaux

6/5/2026 at 10:30:03 AM

AFAIK uv installs python packages only. This fetches and runs binaries from Github.

by mr_mitm

6/6/2026 at 12:47:16 AM

I’m this is not true, uv + wheels you can install binaries

by broknbottle

6/5/2026 at 10:45:43 AM

Ah. Missed that. Thank you

by pseufaux

6/5/2026 at 2:27:55 PM

This is pretty cool, I'm doing something similar for binaries I use on my computer - https://github.com/chasen-bettinger/conf/blob/main/binaries....

by bavarianbob

6/5/2026 at 11:21:47 AM

For pixi we also created a octoconda & a "github-releases" channel: https://prefix.dev/blog/octoconda-repackage-github-binary-re...

by droelf

6/5/2026 at 1:09:03 PM

This is pretty neat.

I am more used to uv than pixi or mise so it would be an easier addition to my workflow.

However I do think it would probably be nicer if this kind of approach used conda packages as a source of truth. So kind of like pixi but without pixi!

by whinvik

6/5/2026 at 6:39:26 PM

Somewhat similar: https://github.com/facebook/dotslash

by oftenwrong

6/5/2026 at 10:04:05 AM

from TFA

    uv run ohbin run rg -- TODO src/

yeaaah

by _ZeD_

6/5/2026 at 12:16:06 PM

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by notmarkeloff

6/5/2026 at 11:56:40 AM

Isn't this the problem bazel's supposed to solve?

by jpollock

6/5/2026 at 2:25:11 PM

there are a few projects not using bazel

by jitl