LMlmz·Jul 29, 2024
I previously saw https://github.com/buildinspace/peru in use. Seems somewhat similar.
In Show HN: Vdm, a sane alternative to e.g. Git submodulesbuildinspace
peru
Python2014–2024
buildinspace / peru
peru
a generic package manager, for including other people's code in your projects
4Distinct people
8Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1.1KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
a generic package manager, for including other people's code in your projects
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
I use them daily and they're painful! Thankfully, there's Peru [0]. Unfortunately, it only works on Python 3.3+. [0] https://github.com/buildinspace/peru
kolev used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.
No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.
Also in these discussions
No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year8 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2014-12-03 17:52:36 UTC to 2024-07-29 07:28:09 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesI haven't worked at Google, but I have worked at Facebook, and I can say with some confidence that in this respect Facebook is Google too :)
For sure there are tradeoffs for big projects that don't make sense for small ones. But there are also times where big projects need a tool that's "just better" than what small projects need, and once that tool has been built it can make sense for everyone to use it. I think good, strong, convenient version pinning is an example of the latter, when the tools are available. That was the inspiration for the peru tool (https://github.com/buildinspace/peru).
In Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by defaultI latched onto the URL idea because it's something we're wondering about with the `peru` project today :) https://github.com/buildinspace/peru/issues/193
Totally, fetching a single version through URLs works now, even on GitHub if you use tags. The tricky part is saying "I'm using 1.0, and 1.1 just came out, so I should upgrade to that." That requires ecosystem-wide agreement that everyone's going to use SemVer, and it assumes that everything's hosted in git or similar where there's a standard way to enumerate the available versions.
In Announcing Rust 1.30Exactly. So with peru, those post-fetch steps, in this case specific to fish, could run as separate ~"features". (I put that in quotes with a tilde, because I had trouble figuring out exactly how that works.) Here are a couple links to see what I mean about adding additional functionality outside existing plugins or as a new plugin:
https://github.com/buildinspace/peru/blob/master/docs/archit...
https://github.com/buildinspace/peru/tree/master/docs/make_e...
Edit: As a possible concrete example, `extract_tar` runs in `curl_plugin.py` based on `PERU_MODULE_UNPACK` setting in a yaml config.
In Fundle: A minimalist package manager for fish shellAgreed. From my research, [peru](https://github.com/buildinspace/peru) works very well as a unified, extensible application's package manager, plugin manager, extension manager, addon manager, theme manager, etc.
In Fundle: A minimalist package manager for fish shellI use them daily and they're painful! Thankfully, there's Peru [0]. Unfortunately, it only works on Python 3.3+.
[0] https://github.com/buildinspace/peru
In Mastering Git submodulesPeru – A tool for including other people's code in your projects
25 points · Open discussion