CPM (Chickin Package Manager)

I made this tool mainly for my personnal use but I guess it could potentially interest others.

The readme is highly WIP, so a ton of stuff is still missing (, but will eventually be added).

Installing

• linux : wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChickChicky/cpm/master/install.bash install-cpm.bash && sudo bash ./install-cpm.bash
• windows : TBD

Configuration

The configuration file can be found at:

• linux : /etc/.cpm/
• windows : %appdata%\.cpm\

Add A Source

• HTTP : cpm source add --kind=http --href=<URL> --name=<SOURCE NAME>

Note that the source URL must be the one to access the package list.

Creating A Package

Create a .cpmpkg file inside of your package (you can use "$schema":"https://gist.github.com/ChickChicky/6aba61e39b5c0b79d44caa16dc062458") to get hints on how to structure stuff

The three basic fields are:

• id : the ID of your package (must be unique)
• name : the longer name for your package
• version : the version of your package

You may also include fields like:

• description : an extended description for the package
• authors : the author(s) of the package
• dependencies : the list of packages that this package depends on
• os : an array of patterns that describe which OS the package is compatible with

Sources

HTTP Source

An HTTP source should return a JSON object containing the following fields:

• install_kind : a string that specifies the method to be used to download packages, see this for more details
• packages : an array of objects formatted similarly to packages that may only include the following fields : id, name, description, version, authors, dependencies, hidden, lib

Install kinds

A source must specify the method to be used to install the packages, and depending on the install_kind, others field will be required.

• http :
  • install_href : the href that will be used to query packages, $package-id$ will be replaced by the ID of the package to be installed. If the source href is http://example.com/cpm/list, '/packages/$package-id$' will result in *http://example.com/packages/\*, packages/$package-id$ will result in https://example.com/cpm/packages/\