PackagingCon – a conference only for software package management

• bindle

  2 260 4.5 Rust

  Bindle: Object Storage for Collections

  

I hope they consider this: https://github.com/deislabs/bindle/blob/main/docs/invoice-sp...

Bindle seems interesting but I'm not quite sure how to use it or whether it will take off anytime soon. Maybe cargo has some of its interesting features.

• fpm

  38 11,059 3.6 Ruby

  Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Cargo

  265 12,099 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package manager

  

I actually agree, yet it still has shortcomings. For eg https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/545 is still open (it's from 2014!!)

• devbox

  49 7,679 9.7 Go

  Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

  

I've spent the last year managing all my packages with Devbox (https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox).

Local dev, cloud dev, CI, production – all with the same config file. Fingers crossed my talk submission for PackagingCon gets accepted. It'd be awesome to share this new way of working with a wider audience.

• nix-installer

  15 1,679 8.8 Rust

  Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 2 million installs.

  

and that's just the simple version, on Linux, and thus is likely the happy-path in CI.

When trying to use it locally on macOS, this here is just some "you wanna do _what_?!": https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/tree/v0.... (not to pick on determinate.systems, the upstream is similarly facepalm: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-... )

• nfpm

  4 2,064 9.1 Go

  nFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb, rpm, apk and arch linux packager written in Go

  

I love me some fpm, but I recently discovered it has a golang pseudo-replacement: https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm#readme

It's for sure a ton harder to use (IMHO) because it mandates the creation of a manifest yaml, versus "fpm -s dir -t deb my-directory && echo tada" but not having to deal with ruby (or docker) can make it a better fit for several circumstances

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