Michael Tiller
Xogeny Inc., USA
Dietmar Winkler
Telemark University College, Norway
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp15118725Published in: Proceedings of the 11th International Modelica Conference, Versailles, France, September 21-23, 2015
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 118:78, p. 725-736
Published: 2015-09-18
ISBN: 978-91-7685-955-1
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper discusses the impact package manager. The
primary goal of this project is to support the development
of a healthy eco-system around Modelica. For many
other languages, the existence of an easy to use package manager has made it easier for people to explore and
adopt those languages. We seek to bring that same kind
of capability to the Modelica community by incorporating useful features from other package managers like
bower, npm, etc.
This paper is an update on the status of the impact
package manager which was discussed previously in
(Tiller and Winkler 2014). This latest version of
impact involves a complete rewrite that incorporates
a more advanced dependency resolution algorithm. That
dependency resolution will be discussed in depth along
with many of the subtle issues that arose during the development of this latest version of impact. Along with
a superior dependency resolution scheme, the new version of impact is much easier to install and use. Furthermore, it includes many useful new features as well.
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