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allow installation of packages from repository server
Enhancement
At the moment xst only allows installation of packages that are locally available. While this is useful for local build artefacts there are plenty of pre-built packages available at the public package repository.
It would be handy if xst would allow to install any of them without having to download them first.
xst package install --from-repo [--repo-url] <packages..>
The XQuery implementation might end up just being a call to repo:install-and-deploy#2 and some error handling wrapped around it.
related to #13 (to query 3rd party repositories)
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This is a very different approach than #80 because the exist-instance must be able to access the repository.
@joewiz I hope this makes it a little clearer what the goal of #80 is in contrast.
This feature is available since the release of xst v2.0.0
xst package install from-registry monex