bagpack

bagpack is a versatile local package manager. bagpack has 2 ideas at its core ,

• Versatile - Don't care what the package is. Just deliver it.
• Local - No Internet connection needed. Everything is local to the machine.

Inspiration

npm and bower are the main inspirations for bagpack. I have ended up using them atleast once a day and there are times when I have to install packages from them when my internet is down. So , bagpack's main purpose is to fill the gap left by them.

bagpack got its name from the bagpack character of the TV Series named Dora the Explorer. Yeah ! bagpack provides all the necessary things for your quest. We even got the map inside the bagpack.

Install

npm install -g bagpack

Features

• Package anything. This allows your private libraries to be served easily.
• publishing and installing packages are done local without internet.
• reuse already installed packages from other package managers like bower and npm.
• Less overhead - bagpack stores key pair values and not a clone of the package.
• Dead simple copy paste utility.

Concepts

In order to start working with bagpack, here are some basic concepts.

• No configuration file is needed for identifying bagpack packages.
• All bagpack packages are identified as directories , with directory name as the package name.
• Versioning is not needed as , any changes inside the package will be effective automatically.

Commands

you can either use bagpack or bp to execute commands on bagpack.

• pack or publish - Pack something into the bagpack. This will mean publishing your package via bagpack for using it.
• pick or install - Pick anything from bagpack. This means installing a package that is available in the bagpack.
• list - Lists all the things inside the bagpack.
• remove - Removes a package from bagpack.

Help

Usage: bagpack [options] [command]

Commands:

pack|publish [dir]      Packs [dir] directory or current directory.
pick|install [package]  Pick (copy) a package from the bagpack
list|ls                 Lists all the packages inside the bagpack.
remove|rm [package]     Removes a package from the bagpack

Options:

-h, --help     output usage information
-V, --version  output the version number

Contribution

Contributions are welcome.

• Feel free to send in Pull requests.
• Report bug if you have found any.
• Refactor the already existing code.
• Feature requests and feedback sharing.
• Whatever. Lets get started !

License