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# pm: a simple, cross-platform system package manager
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`pm` exists amid a set of trade-offs in distributing software. The ideas behind
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`pm` were born at a time when:
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- There was no overlap in the Venn diagram of system package managers that
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offered both strong security promises (signed packages) and permissive
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licensing (most are GPL).
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- There was reason to suspect that Unix systems might be shipped without
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scripting languages; software like [brew](https://brew.sh) would cease to
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work and engineers would be left without a way to fetch and install software.
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- Engineers wanted to deploy software to a variety of Unix-like environments
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using a single system.
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- Engineers wanted a simple-to-reason-about system that used familiar Unix
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primitives as building blocks to distribute their software.
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Simplicity is a principal design goal of this project. When offered an
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opportunity to chose between two designs the design that requires less mental
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scaffolding to describe or implement should be used. As a concrete example:
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transitive dependency calculations are implemented, but supporting compatible
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version *ranges* are not.
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The project is currently in early design phases, and this document describes
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the high-level approach of the project.
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