snow-blade / vlite

A lightweight package manager for the lite text editor written in V

VLITE

A Package manager for the lite text editor written in V.

Purpose

lite is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

You can read this blog post for a bit more about lite or go directly to the github repo

So, following the lite philosophy of being lightweight and blazing fast, i started building this package manager in v instead of rust because the binaries generated by rust were way too big for what i needed, after compilation, this package manager takes only 400kb

Also, the though of making a package manager that automates for me the process of installing new packages for the lite text editor was also a good learning opportunity of the V programming language , it's not really complete and i had to do some small hack for this to work perfectly.

Install

Go to the release page and download the package corresponding to your os and modify the conf.json file after extracting the archive like this:

{
	"version": "0.5",
	"author": "freeman",
	"lite_path": "/home/free/lite/",   // <- modify this to point to your lite location
	....
}

Build

ignore the following step if you used the precompiled releases.

If you don't have vlang installed yet, follow the installation steps of vlang:

• Macos/linux
• Windows

On debian based linux distros run: sudo apt install libssl-dev

On rheel distros: sudo dnf install libssl-devel

On windows,mac and arch-based distros: You can skip this steps.

Then modify conf.json for the lite path, by replacing the field of lite_path with your lite path

To build and run, type:

v vlite.v
./vlite

Then update your conf.json file by editing the lite directory like this:

{
	"version": "0.5",
	"author": "freeman",
	"lite_path": "/home/free/lite/",   // <- modify this to point to your lite location
	....
}

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Always be sure to have the conf.json file in the same directory as the binary

Contributing

PRs are more than welcome, if you don't know yet vlang, good news you can learn it in under an hour at: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md

I tried to make the code as obvious as possible for any contributor, so you should find your way very easily.

Running tests:

To check that everything is up and running, just use:

v test utils_test.v

License

Licensed under MIT