funstall 0.1.0

The fun cross-platform package manager!

Funstall

This is my own custom package manager (well, mostly it's a wrapper around other package managers).

Usage

List all available packages

funstall list

Why?

I use multiple operating systems on multiple machines, requiring me to switch between package managers (mainly pacman and brew). My goal is to have a consistent, personal workflow no matter which machine I use, so I need a wrapper around platform-specific package managers.

As a side note, I also don't agree with how some AUR packages are implemented, so I'm hesitant to use yay on Arch. Implementing my own installation scripts based on AUR implementations also makes me feel safer from supply-chain attacks.

Implementation Considerations

Initially I planned to implement this in nushell within my dotfiles. However I started to feel uneasy with the rather simplistic typing system in nushell as data models surpassed a certain level of complexity. Therefore I decided to reach for another programming language.

I started this project using Python because I want to avoid writing a GitHub action for now to distribute this project across my computers. Generally I prefer compiled languages for CLI applications though so I may rewrite in Rust™ in the future (or in another language).

Development

Publish a new version:

First create a PyPI API key with access to the repository. Then save it in .pypi-token.secret.

uv build --sdist
uv publish --token $(cat .pypi-token.secret)