PackagingCon – a conference only for software package management

1. bindle

   1 2 264 4.5 Rust

   Bindle: Object Storage for Collections

   

   I hope they consider this: https://github.com/deislabs/bindle/blob/main/docs/invoice-sp...

   Bindle seems interesting but I'm not quite sure how to use it or whether it will take off anytime soon. Maybe cargo has some of its interesting features.

2. CodeRabbit

   coderabbit.ai featured

   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

3. fpm

   2 38 11,254 6.9 Ruby

   Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.

   

4. Cargo

   3 274 13,302 10.0 Rust

   The Rust package manager

   

   I actually agree, yet it still has shortcomings. For eg https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/545 is still open (it's from 2014!!)

5. devbox

   4 64 9,544 9.4 Go

   Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

   

   I've spent the last year managing all my packages with Devbox (https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox).

   Local dev, cloud dev, CI, production – all with the same config file. Fingers crossed my talk submission for PackagingCon gets accepted. It'd be awesome to share this new way of working with a wider audience.

6. nix-installer

   5 21 2,655 9.4 Rust

   Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.

   

   and that's just the simple version, on Linux, and thus is likely the happy-path in CI.

   When trying to use it locally on macOS, this here is just some "you wanna do _what_?!": https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/tree/v0.... (not to pick on determinate.systems, the upstream is similarly facepalm: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-... )

7. nfpm

   6 4 2,276 8.8 Go

   nFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb, rpm, apk, ipk, and arch linux packager written in Go

   

   I love me some fpm, but I recently discovered it has a golang pseudo-replacement: https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm#readme

   It's for sure a ton harder to use (IMHO) because it mandates the creation of a manifest yaml, versus "fpm -s dir -t deb my-directory && echo tada" but not having to deal with ruby (or docker) can make it a better fit for several circumstances

Suggest a related project