Concepts

How fuelup works

fuelup is largely inspired by rustup. It installs and manages multiple Fuel toolchains and presents them all through a single set of tools installed to ~/.fuelup/bin. The forc and fuel-core executables installed in ~/.fuelup/bin are proxies that delegate to the real toolchain. fuelup then provides mechanisms to easily change the active toolchain by reconfiguring the behavior of the proxies.

When fuelup-init is first executed, fuelup automatically installs the latest toolchain. Proxies are created in $HOME/.fuelup/bin, while toolchains are installed within $HOME/.fuelup/toolchains, in their own directories.

Running forc on the latest toolchain, for example, runs the proxy, which then executes the appropriate forc found in the latest toolchain directory.

Terminology

• channel — The Fuel toolchain will be released to different "channels". Currently, it is only released to the latest channel. See the Channels chapter for more details.

• toolchain — A "toolchain" is an installation of the Fuel Orchestrator (forc), its related plugins (like forc-fmt) and the Fuel client (fuel-core). A toolchain specification includes the release channel and the host platform that the toolchain runs on.

  A toolchain can be installed either through the channels, or be modularly constructed as a custom toolchain.

• component — Each release of the Fuel toolchain includes several "components", which are tools used to develop on Fuel. See the Components chapter for more details.