jckarter

A package system for Factor

Factor's current module system and development model is heavily monolithic, reflecting Factor's history as a small-scale hobby project. The default settings encourage development within the Factor source tree and make it difficult to accommodate packaged read-only installations or projects developed outside of the source tree. Altering the module search path to accommodate these use cases is currently a manual and error-prone process. This proposal describes a new model for module lookup and installation with the following improvements:

• a standardized search path for modules, allowing for global, user-local, project-local, and

waywardmonkeys

Rethinking the Project Manager

Problem

The current project manager as a variety of problems that we would like to solve. These include:

• It combines install with build. Everything is built and installed