meta-package-manager 1.8.0

Unified API to handle several package managers.

Meta Package Manager

A BitBar plugin to simplify software upgrades from several package managers.

Stable release:

Development:

Supported

Only macOS platform is supported.

Package manager	Individual upgrade	Full upgrade
Homebrew	✅	✅
Homebrew Cask	✅	✅
Python 2 pip	✅	✅
Python 3 pip	✅	✅
Node’s npm	✅	✅
Atom’s apm	✅	✅
Ruby’s gem	✅	✅
Mac AppStore via mas	✅	✅

If you’re bored, feel free to add support for new package manager. See the list of good candidates.

History

The package_manager.py script started its life in my ‘dotfile’ repository, as a rewrite from Bash to Python of the ‘brew-updates.sh’ script.

I then merged both Homebrew and Cask upgrade in the same single script as both were competing with each other when run concurrently.

I finally proposed the script for inclusion in the official BitBar plugin repository. It lived there for a couple of weeks and saw a huge amount of contributions by the community.

With its complexity increasing, it was decided to move the plugin to its own repository. For details, see the migration script.

Current status

Active development of the script is continuing here, in the exact same conditions as we were before moving the repository, like nothing happened.

Each time we reach a releaseable script, we simply tag it and push a copy to the BitBar plugin repository. Plain and simple.

At the same time we maintain a Python library on the side. The library is going to handle all idiosyncracies of supported package managers under a unified API.

Once the library is good enough, we’ll evaluate rebasing the original plugin on it, and lay out a plan for a painless transition, from the standalone script to a bare BitBar-plugin depending on the library alone.

In the mean time we have to temporarily manage duplicate code. But at least the whole project is kept in one centralized place, trying to tackle the same issues.

Contributors

• Kevin Deldycke

• Brian Hartvigsen

License

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+).

Changelog

1.8.0 (2016-08-22)

• Move the plugin to its own repository.

• Add a README.md file.

• License under GPLv2+.

• Add .gitignore config.

• Add Python package skeleton. Closes #1.

• Split changelog out of readme.

• Add Travis CI configuration.

• Use semver-like 3-cmoponents version number.

• Copy all BitBat plugin code to Python module.

• Give each supported package manager its own file.

• Add minimal mpm meta CLI to list supported package managers.

• Add default bumpversion, isort, nosetests, coverage, pep8 and pylint default configuration.

1.7.0 (2016-08-16)

• Fix issues with $PATH not having Homebrew/Macports.

• New workaround for full pip upgrade command.

• Workaround for Homebrew Cask full upgrade command.

• Grammar fix when 0 packages need updated.

1.6.0 (2016-08-10)

• Work around the lacks of full pip upgrade command.

• Fix UnicodeDecodeError on parsing CLI output.

1.5.0 (2016-07-25)

• Add support for mas.

• Don’t show all stderr as err (check return code for error state).

1.4.0 (2016-07-10)

• Don’t attempt to parse empty lines.

• Check for linked npm packages.

• Support system or Homebrew Ruby Gems (with proper sudo setup).

1.3.0 (2016-07-09)

• Add changelog.

• Add reference to package manager’s issues.

• Force Cask update before evaluating available packages.

• Add sample of command output as version parsing can be tricky.

1.2.0 (2016-07-08)

• Add support for both pip2 and pip3, Node’s npm, Atom’s apm, Ruby’s gem.

• Fixup brew cask checking.

• Don’t die on errors.

1.1.0 (2016-07-07)

• Add support for Python’s pip.

1.0.0 (2016-07-05)

• Initial public release.

• Add support for Homebrew and Cask.