desire

Desire is a package management substrate.

The domain of desire includes software distribution points and software modules, but carefully avoids module internals, leaving that to system definition facilities. The domain-specific information is represented in a both human- and machine-readable form and is shared, by the means of a distributed VCS, within a loose aggregation that could be called a network of desire nodes.

There are three sides of desire:

• a knowledge base about world of software distributors and modules,
• an end-user software retrieval system, and
• (re)distribution.

Desire shares concepts with and provides some features of, at least:

• asdf-install
• mudballs
• clbuild

Desire uses the Git distributed version control system to pass around the domain-specific information, as well as for software redistribution.

Higher-order goals of desire revolve around:

• distributed development,
• cross-project cooperation, and
• coordinated release making.

Download ASDF package from http://git.feelingofgreen.ru/shared/tarball/desire_latest.tar.gz

See also: obtain libraries

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