Official Packages and Directory #899

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2023-09-21T19:27:05Z

vyzo commented

2023-09-21 19:27:05 +00:00

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Currently, gxkpg uses my personal gerbil-directory thing for package search, parsing the markdown... yikes
Not only this is not a general solution, a lot of these packages have bitrotted.

We want to make an official package directory in mighty-gerbils, such that:

we only list high quality, known maintained packages
we move the mysql driver out of tree and into the clan namespace
we adopt @fare's high quality packages and move them to mighty-gerbils
we have an sexp format for package listing, documented and extensible
gxpkg by default should pull from the official package directory, but also accept an option for a user specified directory so that we can grow a decentralized communal codebase.

Currently, gxkpg uses my personal gerbil-directory thing for package search, parsing the markdown... yikes Not only this is not a general solution, a lot of these packages have bitrotted. We want to make an official package directory in mighty-gerbils, such that: - we only list high quality, known maintained packages - we move the mysql driver out of tree and into the clan namespace - we adopt @fare's high quality packages and move them to mighty-gerbils - we have an sexp format for package listing, documented and extensible - gxpkg by default should pull from the official package directory, but also accept an option for a user specified directory so that we can grow a decentralized communal codebase.

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vyzo commented

2023-09-21 20:15:41 +00:00

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And the kicker: have a user list stored in .gerbil for package directories, and easy way to add remove directories from that list.

So power users can maintain their own package directories and easily share it with each other.

cc @ober @drewc @belmarca

And the kicker: have a user list stored in `.gerbil` for package directories, and easy way to add remove directories from that list. So power users can maintain their own package directories and easily share it with each other. cc @ober @drewc @belmarca

vyzo commented

2023-09-21 22:58:05 +00:00

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Following discussion, consensus is to move foreign packages (yaml, leveldb, lmdb) out of the main tree as official packages, still highlighted in the guide.

afternoon commented

2023-09-22 10:53:33 +00:00

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Package repositories seem to be a tough area in Scheme. Each implementation has their own, which splits the capacity available for creating great libraries and makes it harder to gain critical mass.

I'm not sure what the solution is here, but one thing that could be interesting would be to integrate somehow with Akku, or other repos, so that I can pull great Scheme code agnostic of where it has been uploaded.

This presents compatibility challenges, not to mention supply-chain risk, but the win would be increased productivity when using Gerbil for a project.

Package repositories seem to be a tough area in Scheme. Each implementation has their own, which splits the capacity available for creating great libraries and makes it harder to gain critical mass. I'm not sure what the solution is here, but one thing that could be interesting would be to integrate somehow with Akku, or other repos, so that I can pull great Scheme code agnostic of where it has been uploaded. This presents compatibility challenges, not to mention supply-chain risk, but the win would be increased productivity when using Gerbil for a project.

vyzo commented

2023-09-22 11:23:35 +00:00

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Yes, we are consdiering doing this.

It won't be ready for v0.18, but we do want to add to gxpkg the ability to pull from known scheme package repositories.

The difficulty is how to compile that code we pull, but it is not insurmountable.

Yes, we are consdiering doing this. It won't be ready for v0.18, but we do want to add to gxpkg the ability to pull from known scheme package repositories. The difficulty is how to compile that code we pull, but it is not insurmountable.

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vyzo commented

2023-09-22 11:42:37 +00:00

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Follow up in #903 so that we keep track of it and don't forget; contributions always welcome if you want it to happen faster, but be advised that we are near code freeze for v0.18-rc1.

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vyzo commented

2023-09-23 14:24:53 +00:00

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The mighty gerbils directory is live: https://github.com/mighty-gerbils/gerbil-directory
Working on the gxpkg side of things, pr forthcoming.

The mighty gerbils directory is live: https://github.com/mighty-gerbils/gerbil-directory Working on the gxpkg side of things, pr forthcoming.

vyzo commented

2023-09-23 20:00:59 +00:00

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And #916 implements the requisite client side.