devbox info only works in devbox projects

[andbleo]

What problem are you trying to solve?

When using devbox solely as a global package manager, devbox info doesn't work. It returns the error:

Error: No devbox.json found in this directory, or any parent directories. Did you run `devbox init` yet?

I don't see any reason why devbox info can't work outside of devbox projects (like devbox search does).

What solution would you like?

Allow devbox info to work outside of devbox projects.

Alternatives you've considered

No response

[mikeland73]

@andbleo devbox info should do what you want (though I agree it could be improved).

I'm not sure what you mean by: "but that isn't available for devbox global". It should work with all packages:

devbox info nodejs
devbox info go

Possible improvements:

• Add version support
• Adds links to website with underlying source.

[andbleo]

This is what I get when I run devbox info go:

Error: No devbox.json found in this directory, or any parent directories. Did you run `devbox init` yet?

I have only run devbox global add for everything I need so far, so it appears you can only run this command from within a devbox project, which is surprising.

[13013SwagR]

I think your suggestions @mikeland73 would be a really good improvement,
right nowinfo only prints the description,
but the URL to the package page would make this command so much more useful.

[andbleo]

I think we have two issues here:

1. The info command could return more information about the package (like a URL)
2. The info command should be usable outside of devbox projects so that it works nicely with devbox global

This issue is more about 2. When I created the issue, I was only using devbox as a global package manager, so I didn't have any devbox projects that I could run devbox info in (and it wasn't clear that that was required). I will edit this issue to better reflect that. Any additions to the info command can be raised in another issue.