Wid: My package manager project

Hi guys,

This is my package manager project. Wid, as the name implies is a Windows Downloader. My project is open-source and GPL v3 license. You can figure out the rest by experimenting. You can learn the commands by entering the "wid" command into cmd.

Repo: https://github.com/ZeSystem-Inc/wid Releases: https://github.com/ZeSystem-Inc/wid/releases

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Some feedback:

let remote_url = "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ZeSystem-Inc/20ddc1ac41d73c6033cee3b4a5ab1a85/raw";

You have effectively hardcoded the list of software you support, ideally you should be able to dynamically update the list, otherwise you have no way to revoke or update versions if required. And if its hardcoded, why bother network requesting for it, just build it into the binary. Would be a little larger binary, but even faster.

No dependency resolution – eliminates fragility.

Meaningless, there is no dependency resolution because thats done for you by the installers.

Written in Rust – memory-safe, zero-cost, ultra-fast.

The task you are doing is entirely IO bound, rusts performance is irrelevant.

[-] ZeSystem@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks ago

Actually, I have a Gist for this that you can use. I update the Gist from time to time. In fact, the sources.list file can be customized specifically.

[-] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The point is that you pinned a specific commit instead of a branch like main

And yeah calling dependency resolution fragile is weird. It is not an actual package manager, just a download tool.

[-] ZeSystem@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks ago

I already use tags for releases. The commit hash is for development. You can check the releases page.

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