Without spending a year on it.
    • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      First paragraphs in the article

      Writing a package manager is not one of the most common programming tasks. After all, there are many out-of-the-box ones available. Yet, somehow I’ve found myself in exactly this situation.

      How so?

      I’m a big fan of SQLite and its extensions. Given the large number of such extensions in the wild, I wanted a structured approach to managing them. Which usually involves, well, a package manager. Except there is none for SQLite. So I decided to build one!

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This way, if users don’t need separate project environments, they will just run sqlpkg as is and install packages in their home folder (e.g. ~/.sqlpkg)

    XDG dirs or nothing. Don’t touch my home directory.