Provide alternative to unsafe curl based installation

[ssbarnea]

Problem / use case

At this moment the only advertised installation method is via curl.

Proposed solution

Providing a generic installation method that can be used from CLI, be CI friendly that can pin versions would be desirable. One example would be to make use of https://github.com/jdx/mise which can also control versions either per project or user level.

This would also address other inconveniences like asking user to alter the PATH to finish the installation as most installers take care of these too.

Alternatives considered

No response

[sophio-japharidze-sonarsource]

Hi @ssbarnea !

Thanks for opening the issue. You are right, and this is absolutely on our radar. We plan to be on all/most major distribution channels, starting with Homebrew very soon. Please stay tuned and thanks for being an early adopter! 😊

All the best,
Sophio

[voz]

@ssbarnea thanks for the pointer. Do you have any more details about your CLI uses cases that you can share? As we build it up, curious to hear from users like you.

Clearly pinning versions is a gap already on the roadmap (as @sophio-japharidze-sonarsource said) and we plan to address soon. Homebrew been already in work, yet it doesn't address other OSs.

Your use-cases would help us to drive our priorities list.

[damien-urruty-sonarsource]

Hello @ssbarnea,

Wanted to share that we are now distributed via Homebrew. You can do a simple:

brew install sonarqube-cli

We will probably support other channels in the future, mise is an interesting candidate.

I will close this issue, don't hesitate to open other ones if you have more feedback

[damien-urruty-sonarsource]

Update: I just noticed that sonarqube-cli was also recently added to the mise registry