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Ethereum Package Manager http://ethpm.github.io/ethpm-spec/
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Write an EIP to specify how tooling should do package installation. #78

Open pipermerriam opened 6 years ago

pipermerriam commented 6 years ago

I'm thinking it would be good to specify how tooling should handle specifying what packages to install.

$ populus install owned
$ populus install owned==1.3.2
$ populus install owned==1.3.2@packages.pipermerriam.eth
$ populus install ./local-path-to/owned.json
$ populus install bzz://Zqme19sn....
$ populus install ipfs://Qm....

Something simple that lays out the syntax for the different ways that a user could specify what package they want installed so that the maintainers of tools can both know all the various ways a user may want to install a package.

VoR0220 commented 6 years ago

hm...I'm not sure I understand what this EIP is proposing. What exactly would we be standardizing? The syntax all around? If so, I think this might be a tad out of scope.

pipermerriam commented 6 years ago

I'm not sure an EIP is the right thing for this either. I'm thinking it may fit better in an "Implementers Guide" section within the documentation that still needs to be written for EthPM ( #71 )

VoR0220 commented 6 years ago

Ah. Got it. A hard suggestion.

ryan-rowland commented 6 years ago

What's the shortcoming here in adopting the same patterns as npm?

pipermerriam commented 6 years ago

@ryan-rowland I don't fully understand your question. Can you expand on what you mean?