Package managers ​

I use nix & brew as my package managers on macOS.

pixi is interesting.

Links ​

• Some nice comments on brew and nix package managers
• Entropic - Federated package registry for anything.
• The economics of package management (Lobsters)
• Topgrade - Upgrade everything.
• Repology - Monitors a huge number of package repositories and other sources comparing packages versions across them and gathering other information.
• Managing Developer Environments with Conda (2020)
• Developers shouldn't distribute their own software (2020)
• Spack - Flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers. (Docs)
• rebuilderd - Independent verification of binary packages - reproducible builds.
• dripip - Opinionated CLI for continuous delivery of npm packages.
• PRIVJS - Implement access control to your npm packages.
• distri - Linux distribution to research fast package management. (Code)
• My Year With GNU Guix (2020)
• What Is Guix Really? (2021)
• Linux package managers are slow (2019) (Lobsters)
• pkgsrc - Framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 22,500 packages.
• Conda - OS-agnostic, system-level binary package manager and ecosystem. (Docs)
• Awesome Package Manager - Package manager resources.
• ossmalware - Attempts to use dynamic analysis to find malware hosted on package managers.
• GoFish - Cross-platform systems package manager, bringing the ease of use of Homebrew to Linux and Windows. (Code) (Fish Food)
• fpm - Packaging made simple. Goal of fpm is to make it easy and quick to build packages such as rpms, debs, macOS packages, etc. (Docs)
• The modern packager’s security nightmare (2021) (Lobsters)
• Ask HN: What is the most complex concept you understand? (2021)
• UPM - Universal Package Manager - Python, Node.js, Ruby, Emacs Lisp.
• Version SAT: Climbing Out the Dependency Hell
• Deps - Command line tool for staying on top of dependencies. It runs updates, automates pull requests, and keeps your local installations in check.
• There are (at least) two types of package managers (2021) (Lobsters)
• What’s in a package (2021) (HN)
• binwrap - Distribute binaries via npm.
• version - What version do I have of ___?
• rinstall - Helper tool that installs software and additional data into the system.
• asdf - Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool, extendable via plugins.
• Code Galaxies Visualization - Combines visualizations of major software package managers. (Code)
• Package management document library
• PackagingCon - Conference for package manager developers and packagers. (Twitter) (2021 Schedule) (2021 Videos)
• Denxi - Programming model for distributing data. It reduces the cost of producing package managers, storefronts, operating systems, and CI/CD systems.
• Google: Distributing Software in a Massively Parallel Environment (2014)
• Hermit - Manages isolated, self-bootstrapping sets of tools in software projects. (Code) (Lobsters) (Docs)
• Scarf CLI - Environment manager and development tool powered by Nomia.
• Aura - Secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR.
• pakket - The last package manager macOS will ever need. Simple, functional, and fast. (API)
• 5 Reasons to Try Guix in 2022
• Mamba - Fast Cross-Platform Package Manager. (Docs) (Micromamba)
• OPM - apt-like systems package manager written in Rust for many operating systems packages.
• Guix - Advanced distro and transactional package manager. (HN)
• AFX - Package manager for command-line tools and shell plugins. afx can allow us to manage almost all things available on GitHub, Gist and so on.
• Upt - Universal Package-management Tool for Windows, macOS and Linux.
• mpm - Meta Package Manager. One CLI for all package managers.
• trdl - Universal package manager delivering new versions of your application from a trusted TUF repository. (Web)
• pacaptr - Pacman-like syntax wrapper for many package managers.
• Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf (HN)
• Grove - Modern package manager and software installer.
• binary-install - Install binary applications via npm.
• Latest.cat - Find the latest version of your favorite software. (Code)
• emplace - Command-line tool to mirror installed software on multiple machines.
• Huber - Package Manager for GitHub repos.
• Cotton - Package manager for JavaScript projects.
• Is my package reproducible yet? (HN)
• tea - Unified package manager. (CLI) (GitHub)
• prefix.dev
• Conveyor - Makes distributing desktop and command line apps as easy as shipping a web app. (Reddit) (Docs) (Web)
• Peru - Generic package manager, for including other people's code in your projects.
• Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine? (2023)
• Best way to distribute a FOSS tool in 2023?
• The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down (2023) (Lobsters)
• Tea package manager GUI
• pixi - Package management made easy. (Reddit)
• Writing a package manager (2023) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Let's stop dependency hell: launching pixi (2023) (Lobsters)