smlpkg

This program constitutes a generic package manager for Standard ML libraries and programs. The package manager assumes nothing and knows nothing about the Standard ML compilers used and is thus quite generic.

The package manager is centered around the notion of semantic versioning and currently supports packages hosted on GitHub and GitLab.

The package manager takes care of downloading and upgrading dependent packages and works well with the use of MLB files supported by Standard ML compilers such as MLton, MLKit, and SMLtoJs.

Usage

Adding a package

$ smlpkg add github.com/diku-dk/sml-random

This command modifies only sml.pkg and creates it if it does not already exist.

Downloading required packages

$ smlpkg sync

This command populates the lib directory based on the packages listed in sml.pkg.

Creating a new package

$ smlpkg init github.com/foo/bar

This command creates a file sml.pkg and initiates it with the given package name (foo should be a github user name or an organisation name and bar should be a repository name). You can now add code in the directory lib/github.com/foo/bar/.

Releasing a package

$ git tag vX.Y.Z
$ git push --tags

Remember to follow semantic versioning. Once a package has been released, other packages can safely add the package to their own source code tree using smlpkg add (see above).