CHANGELOG.md

1.4.7

• Fixed UTC timestamp handling.

1.4.6

• Allowed lpm to HEAD various URLs, allowing for updating of SKIP checksum binaries as part of update.
• Defaulted to non-shallow cloning of repositories, as otherwise, and update pulls the entire repository every time.

1.4.5

• Removed outdated simplified build from manifest.
• Improved handling of multi-arch builds.

1.4.4

• Ensured the JSON is output for --version if --json is specified.
• Added in the ability to specify that bottles should use the system user config with --config=system.
• Added in dump, the ability to dump a bottle to the designated folder to allow for quick and easy building and distribution of bottles.

1.4.3

• Ensured that --reinstall works also with lite-xls.
• Fixed android binary compiles.
• Improved addon version resolution.

1.4.2

• Fixed a small, but important bug relating to tag negation filters.

1.4.1

• Cached a certificate inside LPM to securely pull the mozilla certiciate bundle from curl, incase actual SSL bundles are totally fucked.
• Allows fetching of things on non-standard ports.
• Improved handling of symlinks when on Windows.
• Allows you to specify directories for --bottledir and --configdir
• Allows you to pass --update to update any required repositories on any command.
• Allows you to specifically purge your cache only with cache purge, rather than all settings with just purge.
• Allows you to specify a repository as the first argument to run to allow you to select pre-fab lite-xls from alternate repositories without having to add them first.
• Smarter filter matching for list.
• Autoamtically retry when we get an invalid pack header error from remote git servers.
• Beginnings of HTTPS_PROXY support.

1.4.0

• Added in ability for plugin_manager to sort and filter plugins easily. (Thank you "Big T" @takase1121!)
• Added in ability to detect when lpm is being run not from a console on Windows, and added a pause mechanism.
• Support symbolic links in windows.
• Added in internal hashing mechanism, as libgit no longer provides, and mbedtls doesn't either.
• Added in significant amount of new swtiches to modify what's included in an lpm build, full list in build.sh.
• Allowed for unzipping of .gz when not .tar.gz.
• Fixed errors when handling chunked transfer encoding.
• Changed way that we construct bottles, so that we don't do as much copying. Will still copy executables in the case where it would not function if we symlinked.
• Properly symlink folders when --symlink specified; we symlink folder contents, not the folder itself, so we no longer pollute source folders.
• Added in the ability to create named bottles.
• Changed behaviour of switch to simply deal with lpm defaults, rather than changing anything about the system itself.
• Added the distinction of a primary bottle (i.e. the one we've switched to), and the system bottle (i.e. the one that has a userdir at ~/.config/lite-xl and is on the path).
• Changed default location of CACHEDIR from USERDIR/lpm to ~/.cache/lpm. Which means that across many different user directories, we will keep a proper cache.
• Changed the way we run bottles; we now specify LITE_USERDIR as an environment variable, rather than creating a user directory.

1.3.1

• Fixed a bug relating to repository fetching.
• Ensured test suite runs on any auto-detected setup.
• Disabled switch in the case that lpm was buitl without a release URL.

1.3.0

• Signficiant workflow changes, courtesy of Takase "Big T" @takase1121.
• Significantly increased performance of installing lots of plugins (like when constructing bottles) (~50x speed improvement).
• Better debugging facilities for HTTP requests.
• Better support for modifying bottles (including the system bottle) in a delta, rather than deleting and recreating.
• Fixed an issue with not always detecting orphaned dependencies in meta plugins.
• Fixed a bug where metaplugins didn't quite flag themselves as installed.
• Fixed a bug where the system lite-xl was not determined at runtime, but saved.
• Fixed a bug where some plugins were erroneously classified as complex.
• Fixed a bug where windows executions didn't always work with quotes.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes newlines weren't emitted when downloading things leading to weird UI stuff.
• Automatically determines mod-version of lite-xls when possible, instead of assuming MOD_VERSION_LATEST if not specified.
• Allowed HTTP requests to be run in coroutines, so that we can other things while we're waiting for data.
• Added in support for applying lists of plugins in plugin_manager based on a config that can be specified per project.
• Updated the scoop manifest, courtesy of @maksimaliabyshev.
• Added in support for .xz/LZMA compression.
• Fixed several bugs with extended tar formats.

1.2.9

• Fixed a major bug which caused lpm to stop working in CI pipelines without $TERM defined.
• Fixed some minor bugs with templating in --table and --raw.
• Changed how the url field is reported.

1.2.8

• Fixed a bug where when we handleize certain strings, they'd erroneously end in -.
• Changed separator for LPM_PLUGINS to be a , instead of :, due to plugins.
• Spec now properly contains checksum at an addon level for when url is specified.
• Added in a warning for when you use an explcit repository as part of a run list, and it contains a version of an addon you're trying to run that is lower than the one in your primrary repos.
• Fixed issues with meson and mbedtls.
• Major internal restructuring to better accomodate lpm plugins.
• Renamed CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to COMPILE_FLAGS and LINK_FLAGS internally in build.sh, so as to not disrupt more exotic build configurations that rely on these variables.
• Removed hack to support jgmdev's older libraries.
• Allowed specification of HOSTCC to build lua for static builds.
• Ensured that author is pulled from inside extra.
• Made it so that --table and --raw can access extra fields.
• Changed how url is generated in list.

1.2.7

• Fixed a bug where a gc race would cause us to erroneously hold onto a file handle longer than we need to.
• Improved error reporting and logging around sending GET requests.
• Fixed an issue where Transfer-Encoding: chunked didn't work quite correctly, if headers aren't sent in a single read.
• Changed how --ephemeral bottles work; now one running instance if completely independent from another, unlike normal bottles, where multiple executions share the environment.
• Changed how stubs are reported when listing plugins.
• Fixed a bug relating to plugin loading and ARGS clobbering.
• Abstracted out the common.handleize method.

1.2.6

• Added in support for arbitrary execution of strings, rather than just of files with exec.
• Added in support for accessing lpm internals with exec, just as you would with plugins.

1.2.5

• Added in support for mbedtls3.
• Added in support for Transfer-Encoding: chunked.
• Added in better support for determining the path of the running exectable in EXEFILE.
• Added in detection of being a TTY on windows for some terminals.
• Fixed a bug with self-upgrading in common.copy that would cause a race between the garbage collector and the main program on windows.
• Allowed for pretty-printing of json.
• Allowed for local plugins to exist for lpm, allowing it to modify behaviour if specified with --plugin or if located in ~/.config/lpm/plugins; plugins currently located at https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-maintenance.

1.2.4

• Added aarch64-linux to the release CI list.
• Fixed an error in plugin_manager with MOD_VERSION_MAJOR.
• Fixed an error where packages would be flagged as only being for certain architectures if they had optional files.

1.2.3

• STDIN flushing was added for prompts.
• Partially downloading files, then cancelling no longer causes lpm to break on subsequent operations.
• Fixed a bug relating to local paths not being computed directly under some cirstumances leading to errors on install.
• Small terminals will no longer spew huge amounts of output into the console when downloading things; we'll now truncate download status prompts when attached to a small TTY.
• Improved error handlings of tar extracting.
• Added discord release notifications to CI.

1.2.2

• Added in ability to disallow self-upgrade at compile time with -DLPM_DEFAULT_RELEASE=''.
• Added in the ability to specify which files to chmod executable with addons.files.extra.chmod_executable.

1.2.1

• Added in the self-upgrade command, automatically replacing the existing executable with the latest version.
• Fixed some compiler warnings on windows.
• Significantly better error handling on windows.
• Simpler code on windows.
• Fixed download progress bars not actually getting to 100%.
• Fixed it so that dangling symlinks no longer cause issues with determining which executable is running.
• Improved interface to common.get.
• Improved escaping of arguments to running bottles, allowing lpm run a\ b "c d" to run correctly.
• Fixed issue with filters not working correctly in lists.
• Added in --raw, allowing you to easily dump lists to console, for manipulation with awk and sed.

1.2.0

• Vendored libmicrotar, so that it can be used to open POSIX tar archives, as well as tar archives that have > 100 character filenames. Thank you @Gaspartcho!
• Fixed bug that tried to uninstall core depednencies. Thanks @Gaspartcho!
• Fixed issue with lpm not correctly renaming bottles, or moving files around.
• Added in ability to --mask, so that you can explicitly cut out dependencies that you think aren't requried on install/uninstall.
• Made --ephemeral bottles have distinct hashes from non-epehemeral ones.
• Fixed a bug where we tried to double-install depdendencies if they were explicitly specified in the install command.

1.1.0

• Added in font as a new type for addons.
• Fixed a bug that made it so that complex plugins that didn't specify a path would clone their repos, instead of just downloading the listed files.
• Fixed bugs around specifying a lite-xl to add to the system.
• Added documentation for lpm hash.
• Added in ability to automatically update checksums in manifests under certain circumstances with lpm update-checksums.
• Improved handling around adding disparate versions of lite-xl with binary, data and user directories in different places.

1.0.14

• Fixed some spelling errors.
• Removed system.revparse.
• Allowed fetch to automatically determine the default branch of a remote; returns as part of fetch.
• Fixed an error that prevented SSL certificates present in a directory from working.

1.0.13

• Merged in welcome.lua as a plugin.
• Added in ability to specify --ephemeral when running bottles; cleans up the bottle when lite-xl exits.
• Improved error handling by removing unecessary line numbers.
• Made running of lpm more deterministic.
• Made it so that we only fetch when necessary in order to speed things up.
• Fixed some errors where cache wasn't being invaldiated approprirately.
• Allowed for short looks up when referencing commit ids.

1.0.12

• Updated meson to properly retrieve mbedtls2 when compiling.
• Added in exec to run lua files.
• Changed how arguments are interpreted when using test or exec.
• Fixed bug with windows not properly flushing files on first run.
• Moved lockfile to CACHEDIR from USERDIR.
• Fixed some caching issues when something failed to install during bottle construction.
• Fixed issues around filtering/matching when using list.
• Added in table output format that allows you to generically specify a table and column list you want.
• Added in unstub command.
• Added in --repository flag.

1.0.11

• Fixed an issue with constructing bottles when not specifying a config.
• Fixed a major issue when installing packages with distinct versions (like plugin_manager does).
• Thanks to @guldoman for both fixes!

1.0.10

• We now fully clear bottles when reconstructing them avoiding confusion/bugs over old bottles.
• A --config flag has been added that allows you to specify a user config when running.

1.0.9

• lpm now automatically extracts and chmod's .gz files.
• Added in preprocessor guard for shallow cloning to allow non-bleeding-edge libgit2 linkings.
• Fixed bug where dangling symlinks of lite binaries in $PATH would cause an error.

1.0.8

• Autoflush stderr, so that certain windows terminals don't get blank prompts.
• Added method to grab and install orphan plugins from one-off repos.
• Passed debug build status through to underlying libraries.
• Fixed bug where we compared sizes of folders to determined if they were the same.
• Made it so you can set the define LPM_DEFAULT_REPOSITORY if you want to build a custom manager.
• Made it so tests run more smoothly, and will always use the lpm you compiled, instead of system lpm.
• Normalized paths on windows to backslashes for consistency.

1.0.7

• Upgraded submodules.
• Moved mbedtls to a submodule, as there was an erroneous resaon why it wasn't, and upgraded it to fix #33, which occurs due to a clang compiler bug.
• Improved debuggability with regards to tls and the --trace flag.
• Fixed some small bugs with plugin_manager that nonetheless rendered it inoperable.
• Fixed issues with getting the absolute path of symlinks.
• Fixed issues with symlinks that are broken not getting detected at all.
• Allowed for dashes in auto-generated ids.
• Fixed a bug that stopped things form working when explicitly calling init.
• Allowed run to use --remotes.
• Fixed bug for auto-detecting data directories, when determining system lite-xl.

1.0.6

• Changed from full git cloning to shallow cloning.
• Fixed major bug on windows.
• Moved json to the libraries folder.

1.0.5

• Marked lpm for plugin_manager as optional.
• Made --help and help output on stdout, rather than stderr, following convention.
• Removed system configuration search paths for git.
• Removed xxd as a build dependency.
• Colorized some extra messages.
• Made repository fetching atomic.
• Made sure that common.path checked for executability and non-folderness.
• Added in meson as a build system (thank you @Jan200101).

1.0.4

• Added in metapackage support into manifest and SPEC.
• Fixed issue with system lite-xls not being detected correctly.
• Colorized output by default.
• Added in NO_COLOR standard.
• Updated SPEC and fixed a few spelling/grammatical errors.

1.0.3

• Fixed a major issue with windows that causes a crash.
• Ensured that the simplified releases are pointing to the right place.

1.0.2

• Suppresses the progress bar by default if we're not on a TTY.
• Added url as a field to SPEC.md.
• Modified run so that it'll use the system version if you don't specify one.
• Added the ability to specify a repo url as part of run, so you can easily test new plugin branches and their plugins without actually modifying your lpm state.
• Fixed a few typos.
• Fixed issue with run not handling cases where plugins were either orphaned or core plugins, which would cause the bottle to be incorrectly constructed.
• Fixed issue where you could add non-numeric lite versions.
• Fixed issue where tables generated with lpm didn't annotate non-remote url plugins with *.
• Fixed a memory leak.
• Added in warning to let people know when stubs are mismatching versions.
• Added in warning when we cannot acquire an lpm global lock, and also made it so we do not lock upon running something.
• Better error handling for invalid manifests, specifically when paths for plugins don't exist.
• Fixed issue with permissions not being recorded correctly when extracting from a zip file.
• Added in --reinstall flag.

1.0.1

• Fixed an issue with --no-install-optional being non-functional.
• Modified fopen calls to use _wfopen where appropriate to improve UTF-8 support on windows.
• Fixed some defaults around specifiying explicit binaries and datadirs for certain pathways.
• Added this CHANGELOG.md.

1.0.0

Initial release of lpm.

Usage: lpm COMMAND [...ARGUMENTS] [--json] [--userdir=directory]
  [--cachedir=directory] [--quiet] [--version] [--help] [--remotes]
  [--ssl-certs=directory/file] [--force] [--arch=x86_64-linux]
  [--assume-yes] [--no-install-optional] [--verbose] [--mod-version=3]
  [--datadir=directory] [--binary=path] [--symlink] [--post]

LPM is a package manager for `lite-xl`, written in C (and packed-in lua).

It's designed to install packages from our central github repository (and
affiliated repositories), directly into your lite-xl user directory. It can
be called independently, for from the lite-xl `addon_manager` addon.

LPM will always use https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager as its base
repository, if none are present, and the cache directory does't exist,
but others can be added, and this base one can be removed.

It has the following commands:

  lpm init [repo 1] [repo 2] [...]         Implicitly called before all commands
                                           if necessary, but can be called
                                           independently to save time later, or
                                           to set things up differently.

                                           Adds the built in repository to your
                                           repository list, and all `remotes`.

                                           If repo 1 ... is specified, uses that
                                           list of repositories as the base instead.

                                           If "none" is specified, initializes
                                           an empty repository list.

  lpm repo list                            List all extant repos.
  lpm [repo] add <repository remote>       Add a source repository.
    [...<repository remote>]
  lpm [repo] rm <repository remote>        Remove a source repository.
    [...<repository remote>]
  lpm [repo] update [<repository remote>]  Update all/the specified repos.
    [...<repository remote>]
  lpm [plugin|library|color] install       Install specific addons.
    <addon id>[:<version>]                 If installed, upgrades.
    [...<addon id>:<version>]
  lpm [plugin|library|color] uninstall     Uninstall the specific addon.
    <addon id> [...<addon id>]
  lpm [plugin|library|color] reinstall     Uninstall and installs the specific addon.
   <addon id> [...<addon id>]

  lpm [plugin|library|color] list          List all/associated addons.
   <remote> [...<remote>]

  lpm upgrade                              Upgrades all installed addons
                                           to new version if applicable.
  lpm [lite-xl] install <version>          Installs lite-xl. Infers the
    [binary] [datadir]                     paths on your system if not
                                           supplied. Automatically
                                           switches to be your system default
                                           if path auto inferred.
  lpm lite-xl add <version> <path>         Adds a local version of lite-xl to
                                           the managed list, allowing it to be
                                           easily bottled.
  lpm lite-xl remove <path>                Removes a local version of lite-xl
                                           from the managed list.
  lpm [lite-xl] switch <version> [<path>]  Sets the active version of lite-xl
                                           to be the specified version. Auto-detects
                                           current install of lite-xl; if none found
                                           path can be specified.
  lpm lite-xl list [name pattern]          Lists all installed versions of
     [...filters]                          lite-xl. Can specify the flags listed
                                           in the filtering seciton.
  lpm run <version> [...addons]            Sets up a "bottle" to run the specified
                                           lite version, with the specified addons
                                           and then opens it.
  lpm describe [bottle]                    Describes the bottle specified in the form
                                           of a list of commands, that allow someone
                                           else to run your configuration.
  lpm table <manifest path> [readme path]  Formats a markdown table of all specified
                                           addons. Dumps to stdout normally, but if
                                           supplied a readme, will remove all tables
                                           from the readme, and append the new one.

  lpm purge                                Completely purge all state for LPM.
  lpm -                                    Read these commands from stdin in
                                           an interactive print-eval loop.
  lpm help                                 Displays this help text.


Flags have the following effects:

  --json                   Performs all communication in JSON.
  --userdir=directory      Sets the lite-xl userdir manually.
                           If omitted, uses the normal lite-xl logic.
  --cachedir=directory     Sets the directory to store all repositories.
  --tmpdir=directory       During install, sets the staging area.
  --datadir=directory      Sets the data directory where core addons are located
                           for the system lite-xl.
  --binary=path            Sets the lite-xl binary path for the system lite-xl.
  --verbose                Spits out more information, including intermediate
                           steps to install and whatnot.
  --quiet                  Outputs nothing but explicit responses.
  --mod-version=version    Sets the mod version of lite-xl to install addons.
  --version                Returns version information.
  --help                   Displays this help text.
  --ssl-certs              Sets the SSL certificate store. Can be a directory,
                           or path to a certificate bundle.
  --arch=architecture      Sets the architecture (default: x86_64-linux).
  --assume-yes             Ignores any prompts, and automatically answers yes
                           to all.
  --no-install-optional    On install, anything marked as optional
                           won't prompt.
  --trace                  Dumps to STDERR useful debugging information, in
                           particular information relating to SSL connections,
                           and other network activity.
  --progress               For JSON mode, lines of progress as JSON objects.
                           By default, JSON does not emit progress lines.
  --symlink                Use symlinks where possible when installing modules.
                           If a repository contains a file of the same name as a
                           `files` download in the primary directory, will also
                           symlink that, rather than downloading.

The following flags are useful when listing plugins, or generating the plugin
table. Putting a ! infront of the string will invert the filter. Multiple
filters of the same type can be specified to create an OR relationship.

  --author=author          Only display addons by the specified author.
  --tag=tag                Only display addons with the specified tag.
  --stub=git/file/false    Only display the specified stubs.
  --dependency=dep         Only display addons that have a dependency on the
                           specified addon.
  --status=status          Only display addons that have the specified status.
  --type=type              Only display addons on the specified type.
  --name=name              Only display addons that have a name which matches the
                           specified filter.

There also several flags which are classified as "risky", and are never enabled
in any circumstance unless explicitly supplied.

  --force                  Ignores checksum inconsistencies.
  --post                   Run post-install build steps. Must be explicitly enabled.
                           Official repositories must function without this
                           flag being needed; generally they must provide
                           binaries if there is a native compilation step.
  --remotes                Automatically adds any specified remotes in the
                           repository to the end of the resolution list.
  --ssl-certs=noverify     Ignores SSL certificate validation. Opens you up to
                           man-in-the-middle attacks.

There exist also other debug commands that are potentially useful, but are
not commonly used publically.

  lpm test [test file]               Runs the specified test suite.
  lpm table <manifest> [...filters]  Generates markdown table for the given
                                     manifest. Used by repositories to build
                                     READMEs.
  lpm download <url> [target]        Downloads the specified URL to stdout,
                                     or to the specified target file.
  lpm extract <file.[tar.gz|zip]>    Extracts the specified archive at
    [target]                         target, or the current working directory.