The new zopen package manager is now officially available!

[IgorTodorovskiIBM]

Hello everyone,

We are happy to announce that the new zopen package manager is now officially available! You can find download instructions here.

Here's a quick overview of what you can expect from this official release:

• Centralized location for all your tools and libraries.
  • Customizable installation paths
  • Centralized zopen-config for streamlined management of tools
• Introduction of new zopen sub-commands: remove, upgrade, alt, clean, log, search, and query.
• Support for installing multiple versions of a given tool, with dynamic switching between versions using the alt sub-command.
• Removal of the requirement for Github OAUTH tokens.
• Improved zopen performance and enhanced .env processing.
• An option to install from Dev or Stable repositories.
• zopen framework now supports OMVS
• Disk space prompt before installation

We want to thank you for your valuable feedback during the beta phase! And a big thank you to @DevonianTeuchter for the amazing contributions towards this effort!

For a list of known issues, please visit our issue tracker. If you encounter any new issues, don't hesitate to report them.

We acknowledge that there may be a number of issues along the way during your migration and we appreciate your understanding as we continue to address any issues

Thank you!

[MikeFultonDev]

I did a short video to show off some of the features:

[gngrossi]

v0.7.0 - the new zopen package manager

It looks like our z/OS system doesn’t have access to the URL (domain).
***ERROR: Failed to obtain json cache timestamp from https://zosopentools.github.io/meta/api/zopen_releases.json
***ERROR: Unable to install curl, jq and/or meta; see previous errors and retry the initilisation using the '--re-init' parameter

Our Z systems have access to github.com
Is it possible to use github.com for the json files?

thanks