The next release of OCaml's package manager, opam, will have support for dependency management with Nix! https://ryan.freumh.org/opam-nix.html #nix #ocaml
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this makes me wonder if there has been any progress towards a good meta-package manager aimed for use with language specific package managers, so that the effort for integration different system package managers can be shared between languages
It also aims to integrate between language ecosystems which have varying degrees of expressivity (e.g. opam has Boolean algebra and Cargo has features) which we encode in the PubGrub algorithm.
that definitely sounds cool and close to what i’m thinking about! my goal was slightly different though, in trying to be a tool that’s more of a universal backend to be used by other tooling than its own frontend, but maybe those aren’t that dissimilar and you need your own frontend first
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this makes me wonder if there has been any progress towards a good meta-package manager aimed for use with language specific package managers, so that the effort for integration different system package managers can be shared between languages
It also aims to integrate between language ecosystems which have varying degrees of expressivity (e.g. opam has Boolean algebra and Cargo has features) which we encode in the PubGrub algorithm.