prosit

ATT! The WIP is strong with this one, but it's running now. Tested building for macOS, Windows 10 and Ubuntu (via WSL1).

The gist:

prosit update # Update all dependencies as specifed in the manifest
# prosit init # Set up a new best-effort prosit.manifest in the current working directory <- not yet implemented
prosit --help

What it is

This is a minimalistic tool to help maintain your dependencies, with a high degree of flexibility with regards to their data source and how they are put in your workspace.

The manifest-file

A file in the current working directory (most likely the root-folder of your project).

Name: prosit.manifest

Contents-syntax (Att! subject to changes):

# Comments are supported. Here we pull a repo and checkout e.g. a tag
git: https://github.com/some/repo#v1.0 > my/local/path

# You can also specify branch or exact revision
git: https://github.com/other/repo#main > otherrepo

# Some files from somewhere else could be relevant
file: /etc/hosts > local/hosts.txt

# File from web
https: http://michaelodden.com/robots.txt > robots.txt

# File from web w/ basic auth and env-variables
https: https://$(USERNAME):$(PASSWORD)@my.com/protected_file > protected_file

Assuming all sources are available, and any rights etc are OK, this shall result in a directory structure like this:

./prosit.manifest <- the file as described above
./my/local/path/
    .git/
    <checked out repo contents>
./otherrepo/
    .git/
    <checked out repo contents>
./local/
    hosts.txt

Supported data sources

Supported for v1.0:

• git
• file
• https/http (with basic auth)

Future possibilities:

• hg
• dir
• https (with other auths)
• orthogonal to file and https: extraction of archive

Build and install

It builds using the Zig build system.

Prerequisite: libcurl-dev - TBD: vendor it and deps directly?

• Clone repo
• Enter repo
• Build: zig build
• Install: zig build install --prefix /usr/local
• Integration tests: zig build itest

Prerequisites

• zig - development is currently done on a fairly recent 0.11-build

Design goals

• High performant (to the degree possible for an network/io-bound application)
• Get out of the way as fast as possible
• Flexible with regards to supported data sources and their in-workspace residency
• Support/encourage accuracy
• Minimal runtime dependencies (currently requiring git executable and libcurl)
• Minimal compile-time dependencies

Target platforms

• x64 macOS (developed on)
• x64 Windows
• x64 Linux
• ARM64 Linux
• ARM64 macOS

FAQ

Add it and they will come, right?

License

See LICENSE.