Vent

Vent is a fast, simple dependency installer for repositories.

Why Vent?

Vent is not a full development environment manager.

Tools like Nix, devenv and mise solve bigger problems:

• Nix/devenv create reproducible environments;
• mise manages language versions and tools.

Vent is just a simple way to describe and install project dependencies.

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Requirements

• C11 Compiler
• CMake 3.16
• libcurl
• libarchive

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Build

git clone https://github.com/grafmorkov/vent.git

cd vent
cmake -B build
cmake --build build

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Installing

Arch Linux

Vent is available on the Arch User Repository (AUR)

Install with:

yay -S vent-cli

or:

paru -S vent-cli

Other package managers are not supported yet

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Supported Platforms

Linux (tested on major distros)

Windows (via MinGW/MSYS2 or Visual Studio)

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Usage

Vent uses .vent configuration files instead of large .json files. Example of config:

std glm glfw

archive https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-22.1.8/llvm-project-22.1.8.src.tar.xz .vent/llvm

git https://github.com/grafmorkov/quark-lang .vent/quark-lang

system vulkan-loader

std <name> - install a package from the std/ directory;

archive <url> <target_dir> - download and extract an archive;

git <url> <target_dir> - clone a Git repository;

system <package> - install a package using the user's system package manager.

Packages are searched by name only, so this may not work consistently across different Linux distributions.

Execution:

vent -j 2 example.vent

-j 2 - installs dependencies in parallel, using up to 2 concurrent jobs.

Result:

vent -j 2 example.vent

  Vent Dependency Resolver
  file: example.vent


  Dependency Graph:
  ├── std glm (glm.vent)
  │   └── git https://github.com/g-truc/glm (clone → .vent/glm)
  └── std glfw (glfw.vent)
      └── git https://github.com/glfw/glfw (clone → .vent/glfw)

  Resolving dependencies...

   ✓ .vent/glfw — cached (0.0s)
   ✓ .vent/glm — cached (0.0s)

  ───────────────────────────
   ✓ 2 packages resolved successfully (0.0s)

Lightning fast thanks to the global cache. (~/.vent/cache on Linux, %USERPROFILE%.vent\cache on Windows).

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Notes

• Vent is still in beta
• it's goal is to keep repositories cleaner and make package integration easier.

License

GPL-3.0