The Roadmap of the Nushell package manager.

[amtoine]

⚠️ Work In Progress ⚠️

projects to check out

• kubouch/nuun: Nushell Package Manager Exploration
• amtoine/nupm: A manager for Nushell packages.
• cargo: The Rust package manager
• rustup: The Rust toolchain installer
• nupac/nupac: Nu package manager written entirely in nu & for nu

🏃 bootstrap (rustup)

Note
see a prototype here

• install Nushell without any other requirement -> POSIX compliant / bash bootstrap?
• install nupm itself -> see the amtoine/nupm bootstrap
• change the version of Nushell with overlays -> kubouch/nuun

🔧 commands to have

• nupm new [--script] [--module]: create a new local package with template files (kubouch/nuun)
• nupm init: initialize an existing local package (kubouch/nuun)
• nupm test [--module] [--workspace]: run unit and integration tests of local package
  `---> i think the std run-tests command just be pulled out of the standard library of Nushell
• inspired by cargo
  • nupm install: ... (different ways of doing this in amtoine/nupm and kubouch/nuun)
  • nupm uninstall: ...
  • nupm update: ... (prototype in amtoine/nupm)
  • nupm bench: ...
  • nupm search: ...
  • nupm publish: ...
  • nupm doc: ...

🍬 other nice things to have

• install plugins
• have a centralized list of official and community packages to
  • pull them with nupm install
  • search them with nupm search

💡 concepts to have in mind

• activations from amtoine/nupm: ...
• overlays from kubouch/nuun: ...
• require the least amount of user manual intervention
  `---> required things might be
  • using the CLI of nupm of course
  • bootstrapping
  • (optional) setting NUPM_HOME to change the location of all files (and be XDG-compliant imo)
  • adding a path to PATH
  • adding a path to NU_LIB_DIRS
  • adding at least one use or overlay use to bring some commands and modules to the startup scope of the shell
• how do we configure nupm
  • config file?
  • environment variables?
  • both?

[amtoine]

know packages

• nushell/nu_scripts
• amtoine/nu-git-manager
• amtoine/nupm
• amtoine/nu-right-prompt
• amtoine/nu-pomodoro

candidate packages:

• 1Kinoti/nu-option
• nu-bookmarks from Added bookmark module nu_scripts#509

❓ how should we name our packages, nu-foo or foo.nu?

[colemickens]

I hope this will include "locking" the same way Cargo does. This will help other package managers that will want to package nushell plugins. I guess this is assuming that remote scripts can include other remote scripts. Having a lockfile mechanism would go a long way to ensuring reproducibility and resilience.

[uncomfyhalomacro]

I hope I can see an architecture.md soon or something. 👀 i want to contribute

[fdncred]

I would hope that this would include Windows support since one of nushell's biggest features is being cross-platform.