I’m looking forward to see extended functionality for deps installation from source URL with shards in next release, i.e. shards install https://github.com/DFabric/dppm.git. or shards add https://github.com/DFabric/dppm.git.
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I am surprised that Shards has a much smaller code base than I imagined.
It is less than 5000 lines, and only 3343 lines excluding comments.
tokei -e spec
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Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
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AsciiDoc 2 657 557 0 100
Crystal 37 4176 3343 144 689
Makefile 2 101 72 0 29
YAML 1 17 12 0 5
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Markdown 3 563 0 397 166
|- YAML 1 14 11 0 3
(Total) 577 11 397 169
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Total 45 5514 3984 541 989
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In Ruby, there are many packages that extend existing tools and libraries using “Monkey Patching” or “open classes”.
Crystal’s culture is a bit different from Ruby’s. For example, if we create an extension package, we need to recompile everything. But maybe we should feel free to create extension packages for Shards to meet our own personal needs…