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Brioche
Brioche is a package manager and build tool (or it will be one day!)
Project goals
The end goal of Brioche is to create a package manager/build tool that combines the best elements of existing tools with some fairly straightforward improvements. Some major influences for Brioche are Cargo, Homebrew, and Nix. Some future goals:
- Easy to set up and use
- Build and install packages for a local user without requiring root privileges
- Deterministic (or at least consistent) builds
- Easy to publish new packages and contribute updates for existing packages
- Set up and build local projects (no more "works on my machine" issues while onboarding)
- Easy cross-compilation of packages
Current status
Brioche is still in the "pre-proof-of-concept" stage, and isn't yet ready for prime-time. Here is a basic feature list that needs to be done before it can graduate to the "proof-of-concept" stage:
- Configuration format for defining packages (the current plan is to use TypeScript)
- Some form of sandboxing or isolation for building packages
- Store packages based on package configuration hash, so package builds can be trivially cached
- Command-line tools for managing packages
- Infrastructure for distributing pre-built packages (i.e. a repo with some sort of build-bot)
- An initial repo of common packages (so you actually have stuff to use with Brioche)
Dependencies
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~132K SLoC