Harpoon is a just for fun project made with Haskell language. The goal of Harpoon is to request a database to download and install distant packages automatically.

It'll have to check what is your default package manager to automatically propose to download packages dependencies.

search and get commands are online database requests which is hosted on Github.

The database is a JSON file in a Github repo.

{
	"packages": [
		{
			"name" : "package name",
			"description" : "package description",
			"locations" : [
				{ "version" : "package version", "url" : "package url" },
				{ "version" : "other version", "url" : "other package url" }
			]
		},
		{
			"name" : "package2 name",
			"description" : "package2 description",
			"locations" : [
				{ "version" : "package2 version", "url" : "package2 url" },
				{ "version" : "other p2 version", "url" : "other package2 url" }
			]
		}
	]
}

Packages are defined by their name, description and version. The location field is used to associate a version to a download link in order to compile the right version.

In order to indicate how your package has to be installed you have to indicate some information to Harpoon with the help of a .harpoon file.

This is how a .harpoon is composed :

# comment
Name : package_name
Version : package_version
Type : dll / bin
InnerDeps : harpoon_dependency
OuterDeps : extern_dependency
TempInnerDeps : building_dependency
TempOuterDeps : building_dependency
CompilationBackend : cmake / make / ninja / scripts ...

note : Deps fields are optional and accepts multiple dependencies, just report them space delimited.

Todo.