Installer psc-package avec Homebrew, Nix

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• psc-package

Historique du projet

The PureScript project developed psc-package as a Git-based dependency manager centered on curated package sets. Its stated goals were to avoid requiring Node, improve reproducibility, provide a Stack-like out-of-the-box experience, and still permit custom package sets.

The official documentation revision identifies a 2018 guide maintained by Justin Woo. The tool's model was later carried forward conceptually by Spago, which cites psc-package as an inspiration.

Historique d'adoption

psc-package could be invoked directly or embedded by external tools such as Pulp. Binary releases, source builds, Chocolatey, Homebrew, and Nix provided several installation paths.

It belongs to an earlier generation of PureScript dependency management. The later Spago project explicitly lists psc-package among its inspirations and became the broader package-manager and build-tool workflow for contemporary PureScript projects.

Modes d'utilisation

A project records dependencies in psc-package.json. Running psc-package install installs or updates the recorded set, while psc-package install <package> also adds a named dependency to the manifest.

Advanced users can work with local or customized package sets; external build tools can invoke psc-package rather than requiring users to call it directly.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

psc-package represents PureScript's move away from generic front-end dependency managers toward compiler-aware, reproducible package sets. Its small cross-platform dependency model and JSON project manifest make it a useful historical link between Bower-era PureScript and Spago's integrated workflow.

Chronologie

• 2018: The published official guide identifies a 2018 copyright and documentation revision.
• Package-set era: psc-package established a Git-based, psc-package.json-driven workflow for PureScript dependencies.
• Later ecosystem: Spago emerged as a package manager and build tool inspired in part by psc-package.

Related projects

• PureScript: The language ecosystem served by psc-package.
• Pulp: An external PureScript build tool capable of invoking psc-package.
• Bower: The Node-dependent package manager used as a comparison point in psc-package's design goals.
• Spago: The later PureScript package manager and build tool that cites psc-package as an inspiration.
• Haskell Stack: An inspiration for the intended package-set user experience.

Sources

• Input package coverage: source_facts.package-manager
• Official Spago repository: https://github.com/purescript/spago
• Official guide: https://psc-package.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Official repository: https://github.com/purescript/psc-package