Alpacka

Rust-powered Neovim package manager

Features

• [x] Blazingly fast Installs. Uses libgit2 directly rather than the git CLI.
• [x] Runs in parallel. Uses rayon to run installs in parallel.
• [x] Lockfile interface. "packages.json" contain all packages to be installed, with frontends being able to generate them. (No frontends yet)
• [x] Cache old versions of lockfiles into a file. This allows for fast rollbacks, as we just look at the previous lockfile's output.
• [x] Extremely fast rollbacks. Usually < 1 second as no resolvers are run.
• [x] CLI to install and inspect packages.

TODO

• [ ] Local packages
• [ ] Frontends (Neovim frontend, CLI frontend, etc)
• [ ] Patches
• [ ] Uninstalling packages (Currently they are just deleted from the lockfile, but not from the filesystem)
• [ ] Luarocks support
• [ ] Lazy loading though Neovim frontend
• [ ] Installing/managing neovim versions through the CLI frontend
• [ ] Updating packages through the CLI frontend, incrementing the generation in the lockfile and installing e.g new commit of a branch
• [ ] Conventional commits; Detect breaking changes in installed packages and warn the user.
• [ ] Nvim pack spec support