smackage
Smackage Package Manager for Standard ML (by standardml)
smlpkg
Generic package manager for Standard ML libraries and programs (by diku-dk)
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| smackage | smlpkg | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | |
| 122 | 157 | |
| 1.6% | 1.9% | |
| 0.0 | 3.9 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 7 months ago | |
| Standard ML | Standard ML | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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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.
smackage
Posts with mentions or reviews of smackage.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-18.
- Millet, a Language Server for SML
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Is it worth to learn Standard ML?
The answer is that it is not worth it for practical reasons, but it can be good for didactic purposes. There was briefly an attempt to make some sort of package manager for Standard ML called Smackage; I don't really know if it's maintained or used these days, but there are only 24 packages in it at the moment. On the other hand, if you had a real passion for Standard ML (I did, for a month or two) then you could maybe push the envelope forward a bit.
smlpkg
Posts with mentions or reviews of smlpkg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-18.
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A good dependency manager for a new programming language?
They don't matter, since the package manager is entirely concerned with files. The Futhark package manager was actually ported to SML in the form of smlpkg. How those files are made available to the compiler is not the problem of the package manager. In SML's case, it's done with MLB files (which are part of the packages).
- Millet, a Language Server for SML
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Standard ML [PLDI 2021]
University Of Copenhagen who previously used SML for introductory programming courses (Now uses F#) have made a package manager for SML modules with MLB files: https://github.com/diku-dk/smlpkg
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How should I build a package manager?
I wrote a package manager that sounds similar to what you are proposing. An important design criteria was that it was easy to understand and simple to implement, even at the cost of some clumsiness in use. I wrote about the design before and after I implemented it. It is based on a cut-down version of Go's package manager, and has itself served as the basis for a package manager for SML.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing smackage and smlpkg you can also consider the following projects:
smlfmt - A custom parser/auto-formatter for Standard ML
mlkit - Standard ML Compiler and Toolkit
sml-compiler - A compiler for Standard ML, somewhat
cakeml - CakeML: A Verified Implementation of ML
Elm - Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.
LunarML - The Standard ML compiler that produces Lua/JavaScript
mulligan - A stepping debugger for Standard ML (SML)
molasses - MLB support for CM (the SML/NJ Compilation and Library Manager)
simple-ismlnj - SML/NJ simple kernel for Jupyter/IPython Notebook