Top 5 package-manager-tool Open-Source Projects

Chocolatey

394 9,866 8.4 C#

Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

Project mention: Let’s build AI-tools with the help of AI and Typescript! | dev.to | 2024-04-23

Chocolatey Windows software management solution, we use this for installing Python and Deno

pixi

4 1,902 9.8 Rust

Package management made easy

Project mention: Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-27

I recently started using https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi for Python projects. I really love it so far, but this tool looks a bit more mature, which makes sense considering pixi is relatively new.

InfluxDB

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patchman

8 334 8.1 Python

Patchman is a Linux Patch Status Monitoring System

Project mention: System monitoring tool | /r/selfhosted | 2023-07-04

alire

29 261 9.3 Ada

Command-line tool from the Alire project and supporting library

Project mention: Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23

> I don't know if this tool solves the problem
Not yet but it's on my list as a "phase 2" of sorts for getada. I have an alpine VPS that I'm playing around with but the main issue is that while alire can be built for alpine, any compilers it pulls from its toolchain won't work with it since none of them are built against musl. We've been talking about it here https://github.com/alire-project/alire/issues/792#issuecomme...

emplace

1 243 8.0 Rust

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Synchronize installed packages on multiple machines

Project mention: Ask HN: How do you manage dotfiles and provision machines? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-26

Probably true but as an aging and burned out dev I really hoped that there would be some ready and baked solutions by mid-2023, you know.
It's actually quite the glaring hole in dev tooling. Everyone formulating their own cloud or GIT synced adhoc scripts is a huge waste of energy IMO!
Guess I'll have to start allocating time and check out Ansible, Chef and Puppet (I heard they can do OS- and distro-agnostic package management which sounds promising). Or, since I have no plans to use Windows for anything except gaming ever again and will stick to Macs and Linux machines, then I'll just carefully compose a few bash/zsh scripts with some package manager shims and command/arguments translation and nail that and use it to my grave.
Still, I really expected dev tooling to be better. It's weird how each one of us has to invent their own package syncing manager.
The only tool I was able to find is https://github.com/tversteeg/emplace -- but I am still fighting with it and I can't even make it use config file on a custom location, and it does seem semi-defunct. Will research it a bit, still have hope it'll work but likely not. Oh well.

WorkOS

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).