Package Managers

Requirements

• Dependencies
• Allow source or binary forms
• Provide build dependencies
  • Recursive dependencies
• Compatible with SVN repo layout
• Cross-platform utils
• UI?

asbo

• http://github.com/canton7/asbo
• Lightweight
• Still needs dependency resolution work?

Language

Ruby, INI

Interface

cli

Integration

TeamCity?, FTP

Concepts

include path substitution, library path substitution

pkg-config

• http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config
• http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html

RTSC / XDCtools?

• http://www.eclipse.org/rtsc/

Language

Javascript, Mozilla Rhino

Interface

cli, GUI

Platforms

Linux, Win, any javascript

Tools

Run using "xs xdc.tools.tool"

Repo paths

path, path.sg

Repo manager

repoman, repoman.sg

Build config

configuro, configuro.sg

Concepts

• Canonical package directory: cognomen.utils.c-msggen/
• Arbitrarily name package repos
• Package paths (much like Java Classpaths)
• Canonical include paths?

• Build configuration in prog.cfg (JavaScript?)
• configuro takes prog.cfg and produces compiler.opt and linker.cmd

Pulling package dependencies

Linking to shared libs

buildr

• http://buildr.apache.org
• Based on rake
• packaging

See BuildrForC

mingw-get

• cli and gui
• Win only?

opkg

• No windows client

chocolatey

• Based on .NET NuGet?
• http://chocolatey.org/

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_management_systems