Is there a good cross-language package manager ?

[rom1504]

Currently we're packaging this (and minecraft-data) with submodules on some commit of master. It's not great.

Is there a good cross-language package manager we could use as an alternative ?

I guess there's nix but I'm not sure if it applies.

Not expecting to solve that issue very quickly, but I'd like to find something good for this eventually.

A good first step might be to do git tag and tell people in the readme to depend on the commit of the tags instead of random commits.

[roblabla]

git is the cross-language package manager. nix is only good for people who go all-in on it.

What is this repo packaging ? Only the tests right ?

[rom1504]

Yes it only package tests but tests are kind of equivalent to the spec.
Being able to look at a history.md for implementors to know what they need to update to support the spec version X.Y.Z would be useful.
But well yeah I guess I can just do tags and create that history.md anyway.
And tell people to git checkout tags/X.Y.Z

I guess it's not that important to have an actual package manager for this, idk.

Edit: (I'm asking for this repo but same thing for minecraft-data)

[roblabla]

I think asking people to either use a git submodule (tagging the correct release) is reasonable enough for both this and mc-data.

[ghost]

I should mention bower as well.