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?

  include

  include

  include

• 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