Aura - 4.0.4 - The Multilingual Package Manager

fosskers · 2020-10-29 14:30:13

I'd say it's the whole package. I just finished a little proof-of-concept yesterday that indicates to me that such a port would allow Aura to become what I always wanted it to be (and also fix some of its current issues "for free").

eschwartz · 2020-10-30 00:27:07

"Access to libalpm" -- nothing ever stopped you from creating a haskell binding to libalpm, just saying. If this was a dealbreaker, you could have fixed it. The real story here is that there is *convenient* access to libalpm, if someone else wrote the bindings for you.

"Builds on more platforms/architectures" -- rust is less portable than C++, which is less portable than C. You're still leaving platforms/architectures on the table. That being said, I'm surprised haskell wouldn't work on ARM. And I guess the only thing which matters at the moment is x86_64, i686 (archlinux32), and arm (ALARM).

"Must write a bash parser to replace the language-bash Haskell library." -- no one cares and you should not be doing this anyway. But you never listen.

fosskers · 2020-10-30 00:42:17

I have tried to write the bindings before, but found it quite difficult to establish a good workflow. In the end it wasn't necessary for most of what Aura does, but the story is different if the bindings are already there. In this case, you're right, they are there, so I can build upon them. It would be a similar story were Aura written in Python or Go (or C for that matter).

It's not that Haskell doesn't work on arm - it's that tooling can be an issue, and cross-compilation with Haskell is still no-man's land. I suppose the point about available architectures in general doesn't need to be so high on the list, since you're correct that Arch targets only those specific architectures anyway.

Regarding Bash, Aura doesn't source PKGBUILDs (the old, evil thing), nor does it parse them anymore for dependency information (this was changed years ago). Some tools use `shellcheck` to scan for Bash inconsistencies, but Aura does this manually and in doing so covers more cases. That's what the parsing is for.

eschwartz · 2020-10-30 00:58:00

Running shellcheck on a PKGBUILD doesn't discover security issues, nor does running aura's homegrown analyzer. This was discussed at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=625152 and the wiki maintainer ruling is, you will not be permitted to use the wiki to advertise aura as security software.

Please understand that nothing you say can convince me. It's not like I don't *know* what you're using a bash parser for, you don't need to describe the functionality to me.

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Really, this just makes it easier to rewrite it in rust, you know.

ewaller · 2020-10-30 02:12:58

I thought the "clap" warranted metallic Mercury, not oxidizing Iron

fosskers · 2020-10-30 02:42:04

Thanks for the clarification eschwartz. Note that it's always been Aura's recommendation for users to verify PKGBUILD contents themselves. The bash analysis is a complement to human eyeballs, and it does indeed catch many suspicious things in real PKGBUILDs. Is it perfect? No of course not, but I believe it's better there than not.

fosskers · 2020-12-09 18:34:00

Aura has been included in the Github Discussions program! Feel free to drop in here: https://github.com/fosskers/aura/discussions/678

fosskers · 2021-06-11 23:32:04

Aura 3.2.5 released!

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aura-bin

fosskers · 2021-09-18 06:03:07

Aura 3.2.6 has been released, with newly added Arabic and Ukrainian translations.

fosskers · 2024-08-05 22:27:14

Hi everyone, Aura 4 has been released. You can view the full CHANGELOG here: https://github.com/fosskers/aura/blob/m … 2024-07-31

Overall, Aura is now much more performant, has a 4x smaller binary, and is much easier to install.

Thanks to everyone who has used it throughout the years!

fosskers · 2024-08-10 09:06:47

Hi folks, I've released 4.0.2: https://github.com/fosskers/aura/releases/tag/v4.0.2

fosskers · 2024-08-24 02:27:34

Hi, I've released 4.0.4: https://github.com/fosskers/aura/releases/tag/v4.0.4

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