Wolfram Language Local Package Manager (LPM)

Tired of using PacletInstall and having your packages stored in obscure locations? Not receiving updates? Frustrated with publishing updates on GitHub and then again on the Wolfram Repository every time?

It sucks

Working with paclets the standard way has many issues:

• Deployment requires using a Mathematica notebook.
• Packages are deployed globally vs. locally (where are my packages actually located?!).
• Version conflicts are common.
• Complete dependency on Wolfram servers.
• It’s impossible to store dependencies individually for each project.

Let me know if you’d like any further adjustments!

Solution

Keep your modules up-to date with just github and locally to your projects just like npm

Just add a few lines to your project

PacletRepositories[{
    Github -> "https://github.com/KirillBelovTest/HTTPHandler"
}]

<<KirillBelov`HTTPHandler`

It overrides all installed paclets and let Mathematica find them in wl_packages folder in your project. Everything is done automatically and does not mess with Needs you have.

Releases, branches?

By the default it looks for the latest release and downloads it, otherwise just master branch will be downloaded

PacletRepositories[{
    Github -> "https://github.com/KirillBelovTest/HTTPHandler"
}]

Branches

One can specify which branch should be downloaded

PacletRepositories[{
    Github -> "https://github.com/KirillBelovTest/HTTPHandler" -> "master"
}]

Bypass any checks

Using a special option

PacletRepositories[{
    Github -> "https://github.com/KirillBelovTest/HTTPHandler" -> "master"
}, "Passive"->True]

will ignore any changes made to repos list and updates and directly load all local packages into WL.

Offline work

In the case of no internet connection possible, it will use local files

Conflict resolution

There is a known problem of WL's priorities to the package version (see discussion) All conflicts are resolved by an option "ConflictResolutionFunction", which by the default just uninstalls a global conflicting paclet.

Install once and be happy

Install it once and forget about PacletInstall command forever

Get["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JerryI/wl-localpackages/main/Kernel/LPM.wl"]

or paste this single file to your project

No updates are expected