vlt package manager is not recognized by turborepo

[hamlim]

Verify canary release

• I verified that the issue exists in the latest Turborepo canary release.

Link to code that reproduces this issue

https://github.com/hamlim/vlt-monorepo

What package manager are you using / does the bug impact?

npm
vlt

What operating system are you using?

Mac

Which canary version will you have in your reproduction?

2.2.3

Describe the Bug

The new vlt package manager doesn't seem to be recognized yet.

Expected Behavior

The vlt package manager should be recognized by turborepo

To Reproduce

• Clone the reproduction repo: https://github.com/hamlim/vlt-monorepo
• Run vlt install (install vlt via something like bun add -g vlt@latest or npm install -g vlt@latest, etc)
• Run vlt run dev and see turborepo error

Additional context

No response

[hamlim]

Note - the issue template also only allows me to select a set list of package managers that doesn't list vlt yet either

[anthonyshew]

HI, we're not looking to support any new package managers right now. Maybe in the future! Will leave this open for posterity and anyone who wants to add their interest can add a 👍 to the top-level.

[hamlim]

Is there documentation on why there's a strict allowlist of package managers that turborepo works with as opposed to being agnostic of the package manager?

[anthonyshew]

We parse lockfiles to get knowledge about the package and task graph, letting us create all the optimizations that we do. Since every package manager has a different lockfile format, we have to write fresh code for every one.

[anthonyshew]

Going to move this do a Discussion as that's where we handle our feature requests.