Install corral with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage

Commands and aliases

• corral

Project history

The official repository was created in 2017 and describes Corral as beta-level software. Its design notes explain the name as a deliberate sibling to Pony Stable: a corral is like a stable, but distinct enough to avoid confusion with the older Pony dependency tool.

Adoption history

Corral grew out of requirements work comparing Pony's needs with dependency managers in Go, Rust, and earlier Pony Stable workflows. Its design favors source-based dependencies, semver constraints, VCS locators, and checked-in lock files for reproducible Pony builds.

How it is used

A typical project runs corral init to create corral.json and lock.json, corral add to add a dependency, corral update to resolve and fetch dependencies, and corral run -- ponyc to compile with the resolved dependency directories on PONYPATH.

Why package nerds care

Corral is package-nerd material because it encodes a small-language dependency-management model: bundle-vs-package terminology, VCS-backed locators, transitive dependencies, lock files, and a separation between a shared repo cache and per-project checked-out dependency tree.

Timeline

• 2017: Official GitHub repository created.
• 2010s: Design documents compare Pony dependency management with Go, Rust, and Pony Stable approaches.
• Present: README recommends ponyup for prebuilt binaries on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Related projects

• Related projects include Pony, ponyc, ponyup, Pony Stable, Go modules, Cargo, and other VCS-oriented dependency managers.

Sources

• https://github.com/ponylang/corral
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ponylang/corral/main/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ponylang/corral/main/doc/design.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ponylang/corral/main/doc/package_dependency_management.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ponylang/corral/main/DOCS.md
• https://api.github.com/repos/ponylang/corral