ls-remote for non-GitHub based tools

[sassdavid]

Hi,

I'm writing about a previous issue: #3050

I'm not entirely familiar with how originally aqua works, so I'd like to clarify something.

Am I correct in understanding that there's no possibility to use ls-remote for tools that don't have tags/branches on GitHub, or is ls-remote completely unavailable for all aqua-provided tools?

For example, is running mise ls-remote helm equivalent to mise ls-remote aqua:helm/helm? Or is there a possibility that it uses asdf in the background to list remote versions?

If my first assumption is correct, wouldn't it be possible to provide an option to query remote versions of such tools?

To use the 1password example, its asdf plugin uses the following command to fetch remote versions:

curl -s https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/CLI2 | sed -n '/<h3/{n;p;}' | sed 's/[[:space:]]//g'

(Of course I am aware that this is not the best solution.)

Could we consider adding additional configurations for tools in the https://github.com/jdx/mise/blob/5c4332eccb5f807d410386c05700d67a3df3fc6d/registry.toml file? Would this help resolve the ls-remote issues for tools that don't have a GitHub repository at all?

[jdx]

this is a question for aqua. we should be using whatever version fetching it uses, not building our own strategy on top of it