riparian

A package manager for Bosque programming language.

The concept

Riparian (Wikipedia) would be the package manager for Bosque with which you can install, update & publish packages.

The design

Design changes

There are few changes:

• Namespaces don't have to start with NS and can only have alphanumerical characters.
• There's a exported keyboard, used to know which functions & co can be used when the package is imported.
• A Bosque script can be directly executed only if the namespace is Main and there is an entrypoint called main.

The packages/ directory

There's a directory called packages where packages are saved & loaded. You can install packages locally in a directory (see src) or in the bosque/packages directory.

A package has always got a file called package.json, which contains all the package information, including the name (not the namespace, but the name that will be used while executing riparian, e.g. riparian install io if the name is io, see src/packages/io/package.json), the description, the default version (i.e. the version that will be loaded if no version is specified, see src/hello-file.bsq) and a list of all the versions of the package.

The name of the directory under packages will be the same as the one specified in package.json.

The package directory

Except for package.json, all under the package directory is a directory that represents a version (see src/packages/io).

The version directory

Scripts are placed here. Every scripts must have the same namespace and every variables, types, etc... are shared.

Importing a package

To import a package, you use the import keyword followed by the package namespace. By default, you import the default version (see src/packages/io/package.json).

If you want to import a different version, you can use the version keyword followed by the version you want to use (see src/hello-file.bsq).

Exported variables

By default, nothing is exported. If you want to make a variable, a type, an entity, etc... accessible you have to use the exported keyword (see src/packages/io/dev/file.bsq).

exported things are always public, but not all public things are always exported. Remember this. exported things are accessible under the namespace used in the package (see src/hello-world.bsq).