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Project Goals

What the development is focused on.

Poof is built upon the UNIX philosophy of do one thing and do it well. The development focus remains strictly on adhering to this principle, ensuring the tool delivers focused, reliable functionality without introducing unnecessary complexity or features better handled by other tools.

Goals​

  • Fetch and put in $PATH pre-built binaries available on Internet
  • Work without requiring buckets, repositories, or registries
  • Work out-of-the-box with no setup or configuration needed
  • Be designed to work in user-space
  • Be as cross-platform as possible
  • Be easy to use, with sensible and ergonomic commands and options
  • Have no external dependencies

Non-goals​

  • Build software from source code
  • Manage software that doesn't provide pre-built binaries
  • Act as a general package manager
  • Manage software installed by other tools or package managers
    • Replace or modify binaries installed by other package managers
    • Manage dependencies required by the software
    • Handle language-specific package managers (pip, npm, cargo, etc.)
    • Interface with system package managers (apt, yum, brew, etc.)