xmake-repo VS epm

xmake [1] gives you something like this via `xrepo env shell`.

[1] https://xrepo.xmake.io/

This project should also soon be available on xrepo, right now you can copy the headers or use the package in `package.lua` to install.

Yes, although the documentation seems bare-bones, the code looks clean.

The xmake package repository files might be useful also for people interested in making their own package manager, or even installing by hand.

Here is the package information for autoconf, for instance:

https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-repo/blob/master/packages/...

It has download links, checksums for specific versions, and the Lua syntax seems easy to parse.

The package for NanoVG however, does not indicate anywhere that you need the GLEW and GLFW libraries:

https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-repo/blob/master/packages/...

Therefore, if the official xmake-repo repository already provides the required package, you can use it directly without specifying the package namespace.

I written a c/c++ package manager https://xrepo.xmake.io/#/

Currently, we have included the following toolchain packages in the xmake-repo repository, allowing xmake to pull and integrate remotely:

Here's the github page for xrepo: https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-repo

For my team, I maintain a bash script to manage hierarchical workspaces in the local filesystem. Such a workspace is both (or either by disabling generating of the other) a Cabal project and a Stack project, with deeper nesting workspaces reusing packages from outer workspaces if not shadowed.