package-managers

Haskell newbie and Python guy here. I think I may be missing something here but if you look at Yesod's quickstart , the autor install some packages before cabal sandbox init . I have seen the same pattern elsewhere. Questions: Am I missing something? Is this the real way to use cabal sandbox? Why can't (or shouldn't) I install yesod-bin inside a sandbox? What if I use different versions of yesod-bin throughout some projects? If there is some libraries that install binaries inside .cabal-sandbox/bin, why cabal sandbox init don't change PATH in order to match the sandboxed version? Thank you

I am moving our source code from Vault to TFS, not bothering with the migration or anything, just pulling a get latest in vault and adding it to TFS. The solution has got several projects, and each one has at least one NuGet package. I am trying to get Package Restore working again. It worked in Vault (but not the way it was supposed to). I was under a bit of a deadline, and it did not work at first, so I added a Pre-Build event to run nuget.exe against the packages.config for each project. TFS build service complains about that, so I am trying to get it working "right". I have set the option

Is there a pitfall of using multiple package managers? Could I use Redhat's yum with Debian's aptitude at the same time? I came across this article and this infographic - I was inclined to choose Debian, but a quick VM install showed that the Kernel is not upgraded to 3.2 in the stable repo yet. So I am planning to move to Archlinux, but the infographic rates it low on package availablity and I was wondering if I could install .deb or .rpm files from the Fedora or Ubuntu repositories. The short answer is, yes you can , but you really shouldn't . Below is a list of things (in no particular

The command: Install-Package curve25519-uwp installs version 1.0.3 of this package ( https://www.nuget.org/packages/curve25519-uwp/ ) On GitHub there is a version 1.0.4 that fixes a specific error I am facing. Can anyone explain how to get that package installed? I am using visual studio 2015 community edition with git tools installed. Philippe With NuGet, there is no way to take a pre-version from a Git repository. You could: Ask for the release of a new version of the NuGet package, or at least a pre-release. Clone the repository, build the version, and replace the NuGet package with a local

Is there a way to make bower run a package grunt after it was cloned from GitHub? I'm trying to use Bower but one of the packages I'm using is the Bootstrap extension, x-editable. The problem is that while other packages push a fully built version to github so when installed by Bower you have a built version x-editable expect you to run a grunt file to build the package. That is a common practice in other package managers like npm but I could find how to make Bower build it on install. Which means I need another mechanism to complete the installation of the package. Building on install is an

For every python package you can specify a list of classifiers . Among others there is a Topic classifier, that puts the package in the specified categories that can be browsed on PyPI . For example, numpy has the following topics: Topic :: Software Development Topic :: Scientific/Engineering Is there a way to search by topic programmatically using pip search or other third-party libraries? You can search PyPI by classifier via the XMLRPC API , using the browse() method: try: import xmlrpclib # Python 2 except ImportError: import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpclib # Python 3 pypi = xmlrpclib