update-zig.py

#!/bin/env python

import subprocess, json, re, shutil, os

srcurl = "https://ziglang.org/download/index.json"
tmppath = "/tmp/zig-master.tar.xz"

print(" > downloading index...")

src = subprocess.check_output(["curl", "-L", srcurl])
dat = json.loads(src)
masterurl = dat["master"]["x86_64-linux"]["tarball"]
dire = "/tmp/" + re.findall("zig-linux-x86_64-[0-9.]+\+[0-9a-f]+", masterurl)[0]

print(" > master date: " + dat["master"]["date"])

print(" > downloading master tarball...")

subprocess.check_call(["curl", "-L", "--output", tmppath, masterurl])

print(" > extracting...")

os.chdir("/tmp")
subprocess.check_call(["tar", "xf", tmppath])
os.unlink(tmppath)

destdir=".local/share/zig-master"

out = os.getenv("HOME")+"/" + destdir
shutil.rmtree(out)
shutil.move(dire, out)

print(" > done!")