Environment support for multiple hosts or ports - Redo#280
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Environment support for multiple hosts or ports - Redo#280
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- Please restore the PR description from the reverted PR
- Please add tests for existing
lmsfunctionality before merging this, specifically for command syntax
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Overview
Instead of specifying
--host --portto make a request to a LM Studio running on other address and to makelmseasy to use with multiple lmstudio instances in general, this PR brings in a new feature of 'environments' which are pretty similar todocker contextWhat commands does it bring?
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lms env add <name> --host <host> --port <port> [--description <desc>]- Add a new environment•
lms env remove <name>- Remove an environment•
lms env ls- List all environments (shows current with *)•
lms env use <name>- Switch to an environment•
lms env current- Show current environment details•
lms env inspect <name>- Show detailed information about a specific environmentBreaking Changes
Removes the
--hostand--portargumentHow does it work?
It creates a new folder -
.lmstudio/lmswhich has two thingscurrent-env: store the name of the current environmentenvironments: store all the environment JSON filesExample JSON file for an environment
{ "name": "remote", "host": "localhost", "port": 5678, "description": "A remote instance of LM Studio" }Screenshots of how it works
localenvironmentLMS_ENVsupport