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| tools:cpm [2017-04-11 17:41] – [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 | The Curry Package Manager (CPM) is a tool to distribute and | ||
| - | install Curry libraries and tools and manage version dependencies | + | install Curry libraries and applications |
| between them. | between them. | ||
| These libraries are organized in packages. | These libraries are organized in packages. | ||
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| (w.r.t. its API and behavior) with a previous version of | (w.r.t. its API and behavior) with a previous version of | ||
| the same package. | the same package. | ||
| + | |||
| + | The [[http:// | ||
| + | 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 ===== | ===== Installing the Curry Package Manager ===== | ||
| - | CPM is already part of recent | + | CPM is already part of recent |
| PAKCS (Version 1.14.3 or higher) and KiCS2 (Version 0.5.2 or higher). | PAKCS (Version 1.14.3 or higher) and KiCS2 (Version 0.5.2 or higher). | ||
| - | If you have some older version of PAKCS or KiCS2, | + | If you have some older version of PAKCS or KiCS2, |
| install CPM from its public repository. | install CPM from its public repository. | ||
| The installation requires that one of the Curry systems PAKCS or KiCS2 | The installation requires that one of the Curry systems PAKCS or KiCS2 | ||
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| Therefore, to initialize it and use other packages, you need | Therefore, to initialize it and use other packages, you need | ||
| a package description file in some project directory. | a package description file in some project directory. | ||
| - | All this can be created by the command '' | + | All this can be created by the command '' |
| - | some questions: | + | |
| - | > cpm new | + | > cpm new myproject |
| - | Create a new package | + | |
| - | -------------------- | + | |
| - | What is the name of the new package? | + | |
| - | What is the first version of the package? [0.0.1] | + | |
| - | Who is the author of the package? Joe Curry < | + | |
| - | Please provide a short (one line) summary of what the package does: | + | |
| - | > This is just for testing. | + | |
| - | A new package in the directory ' | + | |
| - | Please go into this directory, add dependencies in ' | + | |
| - | and run 'cpm install' | + | |
| - | As you will see, an initial package description file '' | + | This command creates a new project directory '' |
| - | and a subdirectory '' | + | containing |
| - | for your project, add it as a dependency in '' | + | and a subdirectory '' |
| + | If you need some other package for your project, | ||
| + | add it as a dependency in '' | ||
| Then run | Then run | ||
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| However, if you have developed some package that might be of | However, if you have developed some package that might be of | ||
| interest to other Curry users, please send the package | 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 |
| - | '' | + | |
| - | available git archive) | + | |
| packages (AT) curry-language.org | packages (AT) curry-language.org | ||
