Go module for downloading or locating HashiCorp binaries

[yermulnik]

Would it make sense to see whether hc-install Go module could replace all of our own code locating/downloading TF binary and verifying signatures/checksums?

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/hashicorp/hc-install#section-readme

An experimental Go module for downloading or locating HashiCorp binaries, verifying signatures and checksums, and asserting version constraints.

This module is a successor to tfinstall, available in pre-1.0 versions of terraform-exec. Current users of tfinstall are advised to move to hc-install before upgrading terraform-exec to v1.0.0.

@warrensbox @MatrixCrawler @crablab @MatthewJohn @jukie

[MatrixCrawler]

We should have a look into that. But it states that it is experimental at the moment.
But this could definitely be worth a try. We could save some (or a lot of) code.

[MatthewJohn]

I imagine the main issue would be (not that it's merged yet), how it plays with OpenTofu (completely incompatible, I'd expect ;) )

[yermulnik]

I knew this whole OpenTofu thing was going to be a hiccup 🤣