langenv

langenv aims to be a cross-platform package manager for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Please note that this project is currently a Work In Progress and isn't currently functional.

Goals

• Releases
• To support the following Operating Systems:
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Windows
• To support managing packages with the following scopes:
  • Project-space
  • User-space
  • System-space packages
• To support the following CPU Architectures:
  • amd64 (aka. "x86-64")
  • arm64
• For langenv to be a statically linked binary that can:
  • Install itself onto the system
  • Install & Manage packages
  • And do it all without any external package dependencies (work in a scratch docker container)

Current Limitations

• Only manages pre-built static binaries (Dependency management can be very difficult to fix if done incorrectly. Until a solid plan is made, I'm avoiding the problem.)
• Only installs the latest versions of the packages (The repo format & syntax is unstable. Until the repo system is stablized, I'm limiting the versions so that large changes can be refactored quickly.)
• Only installs & manages packages in User-space

Inspiration

The following package managers are great projects with many cool features.

• asdf: My favorite Project-space package manager for *nix environments.
• homebrew: My favorite User-space package manager for macOS.
• scoop: My favorite User-space package manager for Windows.
• nix: Has a very cool build-system and dependency management system.