alt Hacker NewsI've been wanting a generic package manager for a while that is cross-platform. I wonder how one could find funding for such a project. Thinking about users from various OS' installing tools and software from your niche package manager, yeah that bad boy is going to grind to a halt if you have no key funding.
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craftkiller • today at 3:59 AM
> generic package manager for a while that is cross-platform
That would be Nix. Runs on any Linux distro and OSX. Also particularly useful for NixOS and NixBSD.
freeopinion • today at 12:27 AM
By cross-platform, do you really mean Linux/BSD/Mac/Win/ChromeOS/Android?
Or do you just mean something like Guix?
venturecruelty • yesterday at 7:45 PM
Artifactory exists. It's not hard to store packages and metadata somewhere.
Same. I started writing one as a weekend project and got as far as having a GH repo with releases that mirror the binaries of the tools that I use, normalizing the archives so they can be installed in the same way. It auto-generates a release whenever the project authors update their projects.
https://github.com/alshdavid/install-scripts/releases?q=node...
https://github.com/alshdavid/install-scripts/releases
All of the binaries here are expected to be standalone/portable installations, so you can download/extract the archive and just run the binary.
I haven't yet written a package manager yet, but I was planning for it to just do the same thing as above but figure out your OS/ARCH, handle extraction and also offer a PATH update system so you can run `eval $(xpkg env)` and PATH is updated automatically.