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. …

[image] 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?

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)

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?

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.

update: Pkg.apps is now partly supported (dev, rm, status). the full Pkg.apps will be supported soon along with binary releases in github releases note: for all of you who want Ajt in the general registry, that is not possible currently. Ajt is written in zig and is a standalone package manager f…

You could always have a build recipe in Yggdrasil to distribute a JLL package, though I’m not sure if that has a Zig compiler yet

ill check it out and see if it can work. thank you very much for suggesting it :slight_smile:

i checked, there is no zig recipe in GitHub - JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil: Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl · GitHub , also if i am not mistaken JLLs are to be retired, but maybe i am wrong.

Hmm I did find a zig recipe here , as well as a recipe that uses zig , so it seems quite possible to do something there. Not sure if those are the versions you need though, but that can always be updated by a PR :wink: JLLs are not being retired, they are going strong and underpin quite a bit of th…

oh, i didnt find that, thank you for pointing it out to me! and my bad for thinking JLLs are retiring :sweat_smile: anyhow, ill start to work on shipping Ajt as a JLL, thank you!

Ajt: An alternative package manager for Julia

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sinisterMage August 5, 2026, 4:51pm 14

i meant this, but i think i read it incorrectly, my bad!

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