So you want to write a package manager (Sam Boyer)

• guix

  48 271 3.5 Scheme

  Read-only mirror of GNU Guix — pull requests are ignored, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Submitting-Patches instead (by guix-mirror)

  

GNU Guix, as a Project and OS package manager for projects in arbitrary languages (or alternatively, the Nix package manager, though I find the configuration language for Guix way better).

• Cargo

  264 12,015 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package manager

  

Cargo, as a language package manager

• InfluxDB

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• upm

  2 53 0.0 Ruby

  Universal Package Manager (by epitron)

That article had a lot of interesting diagrams, and I confess I don't have the time to read it all right now (skimmed it), but I appreciate how it starts out by discouraging people to write yet another package manager - because we should! Indeed, I want to see more package manager unification (e.g. this UPM tool looks useful, wrapping a bunch of different package managers with a consistent set of commands, instead of needing to remember the idiotsyncrasies of each one). I also want each programming language designer/community to recognize their language is not so novel from all the hundreds of others out there and really doesn't need its own completely separate container format and protocol -_-.

• cpp-package-manager

  1 0 4.8 Shell

  Package manager for C++ projects

Anyway, writing a tiny package manager was fun. Don't do it. If you want to see what not to do you can check the scripts in my GitHub repo, but seriously, don't rely on it.

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