Ajt: An alternative package manager for Julia

[sinisterMage]

Hi there!
I’ve been working on an alternative package manager for Julia for a while, called Ajt. I built it because I’ve hit some limitations with Pkg.jl in a game engine i am working on which is made in Julia (currently working on it privately). Ajt is implemented in the zig programming language.
Its not meant to replace or overthrow Pkg, i made it to see how far i can go and what will be the tradeoffs.
Some of the things it focuses on:

• very fast startup (static binary)
• a different dependency resolver (based on PubGrub) with more explicit error messages
• parallel installation / compilation scheduling instead of phase barriers
• a content-addressed precompile cache (so builds can be reused across machines)
  Not sure how useful this will be in practice, but I figured it might be interesting to share and get feedback.
  github: GitHub - sinisterMage/Ajt.jl: An alternative package manager for the Julia programming language · GitHub

[greatpet]

@sinisterMage

• a content-addressed precompile cache (so builds can be reused across machines)

Do you set a generic CPU_TARGET to prevent architecture-dependent cache?

[sinisterMage]

not in the code of Ajt itself, there is no hardcoded JULIA_CPU_TARGET, but AJt does read a CPU_TARGET from a Dockerfile for example (in my use case)

[kahliburke]

Curious about whether it supports functionality like Pkg’s Pkg.Apps? I use that for some of my projects but have had a few issues along the way and am wondering if this provides another option?

[sinisterMage]

currently not, if you will try to use Pkg.apps via Ajt it will forward the call to Pkg due to it not being implemented yet, however, i am planning to implement it soon.