Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
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Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#2Looks like this is the same thing as we used to find here: https://tea.xyz/
Which has been turned into some kind of system aimed at generating/distributing F/OSS revenue based on usage via crypto. Pkgx is the package manager that drives it, which used to be called 'tea'.
Here's a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30778924
And a more recent one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33681216
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#3fascinating that the "creator of brew" didn't go ahead and shard the package names since it's almost inevitable that GitHub's /tree/ is going to start :sad-trombone: since it is not designed for viewing thousands of directories: https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/tree/main/projects
I'm also genuinely surprised they abandoned the sha256 from brew (e.g. "welp, it is what it is" https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/blob/main/projects/httpie.... ). Ah, it's an implied .sha256 path from their magic distribution something something: https://dist.pkgx.dev/?prefix=httpie.io/
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#4>"blazingly fast"
> written by homebrew author (brew is notoriously slow)
> written in typescript
hmmm... I have my doubts on that claim, especially when there is no evidence to support it.
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#5I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#6Wonder if this is on the wrong side of the convenience vs security balance?
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#7I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Probably the EVE Online-like learning curve.
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#8I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Probably the EVE Online-like learning curve.
Last time I tried it I couldn't even get it to work. I think I may have hit a bug, but to be honest I'm not sure: I also could have done something wrong.
This was at the "let's download the package repository to get started" step. So, meh...
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#9oh my god this is amazing
Re: Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
#10I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Or AppFS (which I wrote), which gives you all the same benefits of Nix but with less work, though currently has way less packages.