#Alchemist ##Unix Platform Agnostic Installation Tool

Master:

Dev:

###Inspiration I was tired of having to search for what packages I have to use for what distribution. Some I had to download two separate ones others I just had to download one of them. The naming between distributions was different. My setup on one computer was hard to replicate on another. What if I had just one tool that would be able to read a configuration file, figure out what distribution it was on and then be able to download the proper tools it needed? What about instructions that only list Ubuntu packages in the README? What if you could pass those package names to Alchemist and have it install the proper packages for you without you having to figure out the proper mapping for your distro due to undocumented instructions or unsupported distributions. This is what Alchemist hopes to accomplish and make it easy to install things regardless of your package manager.

###What Alchemist Will Do

• Install Packages for you based off whatever name is passed
• Work on any Unix Based System (Sorry Windows)

###Contributing

• Please see contributing.md under docs. A basic summary is below:
  • Simply testing Alchemist on various distributions will help! I only have so many distributions I can test, and I don't plan on buying a Mac anytime soon.
  • Documentation! Throw in doc based comments that rustdoc can pick up or providing man pages. Also commenting internally on non public facing data structures or functions for new maintainer or contributors
  • Contribute code! Provide mappings for packages, make something more idiomatic, fixing basic things that might be caught with Clippy, or design a whole new feature we didn't even know we wanted. The choice is yours and anything helps!
  • Write tests! Unit tests and integration tests that can be run on a CI instance is a big plus and adds better code coverage!

###Compiler Version Due to the nature of the Diesel library needing nightly that's the versionthat will be needed. At some point in the future I'll work on creating an installer to get it working on stable using Syntex. As of now though since this is far from production ready nightly is fine.

###Dependencies

For diesel:

postgresql and it's dev libraries
sqlite and it's dev libraries

###Setup There is more to do here but this should just be as simple as run and done for the end user to get all setup. For now there are distribution specific setup scripts.

####Arch Linux To get setup for development run:

sh scripts/arch_setup.sh

###Roadmap

• v0.1.0
  • Create a mapping structure
  • Create Ubuntu to Arch Mappings
  • Create a db configuration file
    • Parse Configuratin
    • Configuration file structure
  • Arch Linux Support (including AUR)