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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
bramble
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How to Learn Nix
I've been looking into Nix a lot lately (but have yet to take the leap - I'll probably start with devshell)
But a couple of projects have come up lately that piqued my interest wrt syntax and alteratives (Since I am not sure about Scheme anymore than Nix (as a langauge) :-)
* https://github.com/maxmcd/bramble
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On?
An alternative to Nix that uses Starlark (python syntax) instead of a purely functional programming language: https://github.com/maxmcd/bramble
I struggled to climb the steep learning curve of Nix/NixOS and wondered what it would be like with a more familiar (to me) syntax.
It's been very rewarding to write. I was able to implement some ideas from the initial Nix paper that aren't present in Nix. Nix is also quite dependent on the use of the /nix/store path, but I was able to allow a user to use almost any path for their build store without sacrificing on the potential for a shared build cache. I also want to have better native support for things like building docker images, among other features.
I'm currently implementing sandboxing and finalizing some of the build structure, but hoping it'll be usable sometime soon.
bread
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It's time to fork some good projects
NOTE: I don't know when and if to add new AppImages from the main catalog, also because a part of them is mostly broken and out of control. The AppImage packages compiled and managed by "AM"/AppMan are new AppImages that use scripts that also allow constant updating and recompilation from scratch, as if they were installed from AUR, using more reliable sources (official repositories for Debian and derivatives) . If you are interested more to the applications made available officially from the official AppImage.GitHub.io catalog, I suggest you to use Zap, Bread or the aforementioned Appimagedl. All these amazing utilities can be quickly installed via "AM" or AppMan.
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"AM" and AppMan - that's why they don't include support for AppImageHub and similar sites
The preferred sources for downloading packages in AppImage format via "AM" / AppMan are GitHub and Sourceforge, however, writing installation scripts that are compatible with one or more programs is a difficult task. Just think that many developers add multiple versions of the same product in the same tag (I have to include also commands to find the exact name of the latest version to avoid the download of other packages), or include more complex links that require an equally complex function to obtain the latest version of a program, and this slows down the loading of these programs on the "AM" repository I manage. I have therefore included excellent AppImage package managers such as "Bread" and "Zap" among the downloadable programs, but also "AppimagePool" and "bauh" are available among the graphics applications (not counting a "Pacstall" AppImage versionI made). These tools should compensate the lack of support for certain sources that I have not included in the "AM" repository.
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Idea for Appimages: AppImage Repositories! (Automatic Updates, Secure Downloads)
My project bread or AppMan by Ivan are basically package managers for AppImages, I use GitHub release & the Above given appimage.github.io API to get the information related to AppImages stored in this repository, and AppMan has it's own repository maintained by Ivan.
- Bread v0.4.4 released
- You can learn better while practicing, it took that to another level (I am intermediate in go),
- Install, Update, Remove & Run AppImages From CLI
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Install, update, remove & run appimages from CLI
Bread 🍞: https://github.com/DEVLOPRR/bread
- Bread 🍞
- Go - A Simple Tool To Install, update and remove AppImage from your CLI
What are some alternatives?
goget - 📦 A simple, good looking, go modules TUI! No more looking for the right "go get" command!
appimage-cli-tool - AppImage package manager
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
go-appimage - Go implementation of AppImage tools
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
zap - :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager
dotfiles - A collection of my dotfiles
lust - A fast, auto-optimizing image server designed for high throughput and caching; Now that is hot.
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
AM - An "AUR-inspired" Database of AppImage packages and a CLI to manage/install/update them system-wide! This repo lists 1900+ standalone apps for GNU/Linux. You can extend it with custom repositories, create your own installation scripts and even build AppImages on the fly! "AM" Application Manager: Easy to use like APT and Powerful like PacMan!
starfig - Starfig is a programmatic config generator. It helps create static configs using Starlark, a deterministic Python-like language.
AppMan - Manage 1900+ AppImage packages and official standalone apps for GNU/Linux without root privileges using the extensible and ever-growing AUR-inspired database of "AM Application Manager". Easy to use like APT and powerful like PacMan.