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Package manager for the C programming language.

$ npm install -g visionmedia/cpm
Basically the lazy-man's copy / paste, promoting smaller C utilities, also
serving as a nice way to discover these sort of libraries, from my experience
they are scattered all over the web and discovery is relatively poor. The wiki listing of packages acts as the "registry" and populates the cpm-search(1) results.
cpm(1) is not a package manager for an end-user experience, for example it currently
has no concept of dependencies etc, you should use cpm(1) to fetch these files for you
and check them into your repository, the end-user and contributors will not require cpm(1).
Usage: cpm [options] [command]
Commands:
install <pkg> install the given package(s)
help [cmd] display help for [cmd]
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
Install a few dependencies to ./deps:
$ cpm install visionmedia/ms.c visionmedia/commander.c
Install them to ./src instead:
$ cpm install visionmedia/ms.c visionmedia/commander.c -o src
Install some executables:
$ cpm install visionmedia/mon visionmedia/every visionmedia/watch
Once again with brace expansion, you do love brace expansion right? ;)
$ cpm install visionmedia/{mon,every,watch}
Example of a package.json explicitly listing the source:
{
"name": "term",
"version": "0.0.1",
"repo": "visionmedia/term.c",
"description": "Terminal ansi escape goodies",
"keywords": ["terminal", "term", "tty", "ansi", "escape", "colors", "console"],
"license": "MIT",
"src": ["src/term.c", "src/term.h"]
}
Example of a package.json for an executable:
{
"name": "mon",
"version": "1.1.1",
"repo": "visionmedia/mon",
"description": "Simple process monitoring",
"keywords": ["process", "monitoring", "monitor", "availability"],
"license": "MIT",
"install": "make install"
}
MIT
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C package manager
We found that c-pm demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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