Paco is a free tiny package manager that provides a safer way to manage dependencies by downloading and installing packages from a trusted and predefined array rather than shipping addons and / or binaries directly with the project.
It's pretty much like Python, Go, or Ruby, where project dependencies can be installed from a list of packages and versions.
We’d love to get any feedback on this and know what you'd like to see improved
Thanks! 👋
20 Comments
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 10d
I honestly prefer git submodules, but not every addon provides a readily cloneable repo (or branch).
What prevents bad actors from changing stuff under the hood? Pinning specific versions and verifying via checksum could be helpful here.
sunbytes@programming.dev · 1 pts · 10d
You'd have to hack into the asset store and upload another zip archive there to update the official registry, I guess 😄
Indeed, lock files and checksums are planned
It's still in early development and if you can help with any of this please suggest changes on the repo
Also if you're into decentralization you can own your manifest
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 9d
I don't know how the official asset store works, but some software repositories allow re-uploading binaries under the same version, often for a legitimate reason. Relatedly, for example, Vintage Story released the same version twice for Linux, because the first time it had a broken install script. Everything else stayed the same. It broke the AUR package though and required a
pkgrelbump.A bug in the asset store could be exploited or it could be hacked, a popular asset silently replaced, and then you won't know if something changed. You mentioned decentralization, but if you wanna support other unofficial sources, then again you need to either trust them (and their security), or you could have a verification check like I mentioned.
sunbytes@programming.dev · 3 pts · 9d
Absolutely, there are preliminary work on package integrity verification it's simply non-food paying work as you can imagine but it will be committed anytime soon.
I know lock files are done by now, it will just take few more changes to have package integrity verification aswell.
We just didn’t expect people to want a full-featured package manager right away, but it’s going to happen.
Thank you for these wise advices, and again, you're more than welcome to join if you find time!
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 9d
Like pikl said, you made claims, so you can't just go "oh those don't matter because I'm not being paid". I wasn't demanding anything, I was just wondering if the claims held up. I'm just as much a hobby dev as you (by choice, in my case). We won't be able to do everything, satisfy everyone, finish every project, whatever it might be... but we can accept feedback all the same. And I'm glad you're considering mine.
sunbytes@programming.dev · 1 pts · 9d
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 9d
You can do whatever you want, but another person can use their free will to point out incorrect claims. In fact, in the age of disinformation, it's pretty important to look into claims (say, about safety and performance) made by people and projects, because they're not always to be trusted.
If you really want to get into it, since you are already trusting the author of the project you're pulling code from, you don't gain any security from pulling part of the code from another source. The benefit of your package manager is having to include less code in your git repository, potentially making it smaller, and (presumably) the ease of updating to a newer version.
And I don't know how you went from reading my comment to "screw yourself". Perhaps you should reconsider the way you handle entirely neutral and well-meant feedback.
sunbytes@programming.dev · 2 pts · 8d
It just wasn't my day, and we put a lot of effort into it, so being told that I said it does not matter kind of set me off a bit.
Anyway, lock files and package integrity verification have been pushed, there may still be a few details to iron out, but it seems to be working so far. Let me know if you find something that looks wrong or if you think about anything that is missing.
RelativityRanger@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 9d
You just pointed behaviors that never happened, like OP never said it does not matter. I can understand why that might be annoying so I wouldn't call that neutral and well-meant feedback compared to your previous replies.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 7d
AdminBot@programming.dev · 1 pts · 9d
x_pikl_x@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
So you're selling it as a secure option, but the only question anyone has asked about security you say I don't know, laugh and change the subject. Immediately moving on.
RelativityRanger@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 9d
Where? I read a suggestion that one could hack the official registry and that's exactly one of the point that @copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone raised afterwards
Then OP just says lock files and checksums are planned, can't you read?
sunbytes@programming.dev · 2 pts · 9d
Selling? It's free software mate lol
No addon depends on each other yet, we're fine we got plenty of time to fix a week old projet
If you want to stand out, you can do so here and just so you know, commits are coming 😘
RelativityRanger@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 9d
Don’t let yourself be put off by negative comments people might make, keep up the good work on this, it's a great start
cally@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 10d
Cool! I don't have projects with dependencies right now but I'll check back on this if I do, I imagine it's useful for uploading to git hosting platforms without including a bunch of extra stuff that can be downloaded from the Godot store instead
cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d
Hehe. Tiny package.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 7d
It's considered more sophisticated and refined.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 9d
So PTTPM?
AdminBot@programming.dev · 1 pts · 10d