gooey, a package manager for Roblox

• Installation
• Commands
• File formats
• Registries
• License

About

gooey is a fork of Wally; a Roblox package manager. This fork intends to resolve common (and unresolved) pain points, and limitations, and introduce new features.

Additionally, gooey provides compatibly layers with the following other package managers manifest files:

• Rotriever.toml
• Wally.toml

Differences

• Support path dependencies
• Support Git dependencies
• Proper packaging yanking & types.
• Decouple the public registry scope's from GitHub users & orgs
  • This would be in line with most other package registries.
• Support a sub-set of Cargo's workspaces.
  • Achieves a major missing feature from Rotriever
• Support overriding dependencies
• More feature parity to Cargo & Rotriever. (Includes all of the above)
• Clean up general UX issues (gooey's GitHub already has various examples).
  • Support Git normally, regardless of configuration (config type, auth type, etc.)
  • UX Behavior issues
• Support for Luau packages outside of Roblox (New name?)

Why?

I have started this fork, because of some of the above issues. Many of which, I continuously run into. A simple easy-to-use solution is important to me, so running various patches after installing/updating gooey packages is getting unreasonable.

Installation

With Foreman (preferred)

TBD

From GitHub

TBD

From Source

It's straightforward to compile gooey from source. gooey requires Rust 1.51.0 or newer.

Clone the repository and use:

cargo install --locked --path .

Commands

TBD, but commands should remain the same and be similar to Cargo's commands.

File Formats

Manifest Format

TBD, should remain similar to Cargo's, Rotriever's, and Wally's manifest.

The main intent of this (package manager) is to combine & expand support, so compatability layers for using Rotriever.toml and Wally.toml files should be provided.

Lockfile Format

TBD, but will likely be a different structure.

Registries

A new registry system that falls back to Wally is something to consider, but this is TBD. For now, this would use the existing Wally registry backend (& options to now use Git URLs/File Paths)

License

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
  License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
  file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

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