germanapple / repository6

A community-maintained repository of zig packages

Zig Package Repository

This is one community-maintained repository of zig packages.

Contributions

If you have an actively maintained package, feel free to create a PR that adds your package to the repository! If you feel like it, you're also free to add other peoples packages!

Adding new packages

The repo provides a convenience tool to create new packages. Just run zig build add to get a prompt for package informations. The tool will verify that the entered information is vaguely correct and follows the format rules, also checks if a package with that name already exists and if the tags are all valid.

Verification

This repository will use the CI to verify if all PRs keep the database consistent. If you want to locally test this before doing the PR, just call zig build verify in the root folder.

Repository structure

The repository contains two major data sets: packages and tags.

Tags are just groups of packages, each package can have zero or more tags assigned. Packages are basically a link to any git repository paired with a root source file which is required for the package to be imported.

packages/

A folder containing a single file per package. Each file is a json file following this structure:

{
  "author": "<author>",
  "description": "<description>",
  "git": "<url>",
  "root_file": "<path>",
  "tags": [
    "<tag>", "<tag>"
  ]
}

The fields have the following meaning:

• author is the name (or nickname) of the package author
• description is a short description of the package
• git is a path to the git repository where the package can be fetched
• root_file is an absolute path in unix style (path segments separated by /) to the root file of the package. This is what should be used for std.build.Pkg.path
• tags is an array of strings where each item is the name of a tag in the folder tags/. Tags are identified by their file name (without extension) and will group the packages

tags/

A folder containing a single file per tag. Each file is a json file following this structure:

{
  "description": "<text>"
}

The fields have the following meaning:

• description is a short description of what kind of packages can be found in this group.

tools/

This folder contains the sources of the verification tools and other nice things.