hubcap

A package manager for GitHub repositories

Installation

$ npm install -g @munchkinhalfling/hubcap

Usage

To install a repository, run sudo hubcap install <org>/<repo>. For example, to install Bettermake, use sudo hubcap install munchkinhalfling/bettermake.
Hubcap installs each program in its own prefix and then symlinks the binaries. Therefore, uninstallation is as easy as rm -rf'ing /usr/local/hubcap/install/<user>/<repo>. \

Adding hubcap to your repository

Create a file called .hubcap/config.yml in your repository on the master branch. See the one in Bettermake for an example and syntax.
Then, people can install your repo as detailed above. There is no central package submission database or anything, so that is all that is needed.

Contributing to a repository that uses hubcap

You can install the dependencies of a local project by runing hubcap depend in the root directory of the project.