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--- tools:cpm [2017-02-09 15:37] – [Installing the Curry Package Manager] mh
+++ tools:cpm [2017-04-25 15:27] – [Overview] mh
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 The Curry Package Manager (CPM) is a tool to distribute and
-install Curry libraries and manage version dependencies
+install Curry libraries and applications and manage version dependencies
-between these libraries.
+between them.
 These libraries are organized in packages.
 There is a central index of all these packages which can
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 (w.r.t. its API and behavior) with a previous version of
 the same package.
+The [[http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/curry/cpm_repository.cgi | currently available packages]]
+can immediately be downloaded or installed when CPM is installed (see below).
+Using CPM, one can also obtain more detailed information about
+individual packages.
 ===== Installing the Curry Package Manager =====
-The installation assumes that one of the Curry systems PAKCS or KiCS2
+CPM is already part of recent distributions of the Curry systems
-in installed and the executable''git'' is in your path.
+PAKCS (Version 1.14.3 or higher) and KiCS2 (Version 0.5.2 or higher).
-Furthermore, the environment variable ''CURRYROOT'' must be
+If you have some older version of PAKCS or KiCS2, you can also
-set to the root directory of your Curry system (or you can
+install CPM from its public repository.
-also modify the definition of this variable in the ''Makefile''
+The installation requires that one of the Curry systems PAKCS or KiCS2
-before executing ''make'').
+is installed and the executables ''curry'' and ''git'' are in your path
+(if ''curry'' is not in your path, you can also specify the root location
+of your Curry system by modifying the definition of ''CURRYROOT''
+in the ''Makefile'' before executing ''make'' in step 3).
 Then perform the following steps to install CPM:
-> export CURRYROOT=/usr/lib/pakcs
+> git clone https://git.ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/curry-packages/cpm.git
-> git clone https://git.ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/curry/cpm.git
+> cd cpm
-> cd cpm
+> make
-> make
 If this was successful, the binary ''cpm'' has been generated in the
-directory ''bin''. For convenient use, put this binary somewhere
+directory ''~/.cpm/bin''. This is also the directory where CPM installs binaries
-in your path or create a symbolic link from some path directory
+of tools distributed with packages. For convenient use, you should add the
-to this binary.
+directory ''~/.cpm/bin'' to your path. Alternatively, you can also put
+the binary ''~/.cpm/bin/cpm'' somewhere in your path or create a symbolic
+link from some path directory to this binary.
 ===== Quick Start  =====
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 Therefore, to initialize it and use other packages, you need
 a package description file in some project directory.
-All this can be created by the command ''cpm new'' and answering
+All this can be created by the command ''cpm new'':
-some questions:
-    > cpm new
+    > cpm new myproject
-    Create a new package
-    --------------------
-    What is the name of the new package? myproject
-    What is the first version of the package? [0.0.1]
-    Who is the author of the package? Joe Curry <joe@curry.com>
-    Please provide a short (one line) summary of what the package does:
-    > This is just for testing.
-    A new package in the directory 'myproject' has been created.
-    Please go into this directory, add dependencies in 'package.json',
-    and run 'cpm install' to install all dependencies.
-As you will see, an initial package description file ''package.json''
+This command creates a new project directory ''myproject''
-and a subdirectory ''src'' has been created. If you need some other package
+containing an initial package description file ''package.json''
-for your project, add it as a dependency in ''package.json''.
+and a subdirectory ''src'' (together with other template files).
+If you need some other package for your project,
+add it as a dependency in ''package.json''.
 Then run
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 However, if you have developed some package that might be of
 interest to other Curry users, please send the package
-as a zip file, or just the package description file
+as a tar or zip file to
-''package.json'' (if the package is already in a publicly
-available git archive) to
     packages (AT) curry-language.org

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