With the release of GNU APL 1.6, I thought that this would be a good time to update the APL Package Manager.
https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/apl-pkg The big change here is that the development branch (percy) has been merged onto master. There are a lot of new features (see below). There won't be a tagged release; I strongly suggest that you clone the git repo and pull updates periodically. This remains a development release since the primary feature of the percy release (i.e. versioned packages) is not fully implemented. This won't affect you; just don't try to add version constraints to the depends_on: entries in your _metadata_ files. Note that akt has been updated since the last release. It is essential that you re-run `./install.sh` to rebuild akt, or run `$ make -C extra/akt`. There have been a lot of changes since the last release. From the doc/CHANGES.md file: Features -------- - The `]pkg inspect <variable-name>` command runs an interactive inspector. The inspector shows attributes of the variable and provides commands to navigate through the data. Use the inspector's `h` command to list available commands. - The `]pkg time <expression>` command executes the expression and displays its execution time. - The `]pkg ident platform` command displays information about the platform upon which the package manager runs. - The `]pkg ident environment` command displays information about the runtime environment. - The `]pkg ident configuration` command displays the APL Packager's configuration settings. - The `]pkg setpw` command updates ⎕PW to match the detected terminal width. - The `]pkg locate <function-name> header` command displays the function's information plus its header line and header comments (i.e. all of the full-line comments immediately following the header line, up to the first line that's not a comment). - The `]pkg help` command's display brackets metasyntactic variables to distinguish them from literal keywords. - The `]pkg names <prefix>` command rejects an invalid prefix. - The `]pkg packages` command displays a legend for the flags in the `L` column. - The `awe` command confirms that `apl.pkg` in APL's LIB 0 is a symlink. This is a check against both inadvertent removal and replacement by a file (e.g. a )DUMP file). - The `awe` command invokes `tabbed` when available. This is done only when running under X, when the configured terminal is known to `awe`'s built-in list (`xterm`, `urxvt` and `st`) and `awe` is not invoked from within an Xembed container. See `doc/PREFERENCES.md` for a description of settings which affect embedding. - The `awe` commands accepts option `-i #` to set the shared variable processor ID. - Displays now wrap at the terminal's actual width if the `tput` command is available. - The command dispatcher now displays a usage message, rather than a list of all commands and their syntax, for an ill-formed command. - The command dispatcher now displays a list of commands having a matching prefix when presented with an ambiguous prefix.
