RobertCraigie
Feature request: symlink to latest version in cache
pyright-python maintains a cache of versions, eg:
❯ ls ~/.cache/pyright-python/
1.1.296 1.1.298
It would be nice to have a stable latest symlink to to the latest version, eg:
❯ ls -al ~/.cache/pyright-python/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 tekumara staff 160 13 Mar 09:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 tekumara staff 480 13 Mar 09:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 tekumara staff 160 6 Mar 12:13 1.1.296
drwxr-xr-x 5 tekumara staff 160 13 Mar 09:48 1.1.298
lrwxr-xr-x 1 tekumara staff 7 13 Mar 09:49 latest -> 1.1.298
A stable symlink could be used globally, from any bash script/Makefile commands, or for interactive usage.
(It also avoids going through the python interpreter and so has a lower startup time).
Yeah this seems pretty reasonable.
I'm curious what your exact use case is though? This cache isn't intended to be part of the public API.
for interactive usage
What do you mean by this exactly? Is there something interactive that isn't working in the main wrapper?
Thank you for considering this!
The main wrapper works well. By interactive usage I mean someone running pyright on the command line and waiting for results as opposed to CI or elsewhere.
With interactive usage I notice the ~100ms startup delay from the python interpreter when going via the main wrapper, rather than via eg: $HOME/.cache/pyright-python/latest/node_modules/pyright/index.js.
I appreciate this may be a niche concern though 😂 And you make a good point that it's not part of the public API.