Spoon

A wrapper around scoop, aiming to be a full drop-in replacement, but still relying on the existing community work in form of buckets.

Highlighted Features

• More thorough scoop search
• Better performance (Varies from command to command)
• Behaviour changes
  • spoon install app@version will now use an old manifest and hold the app, instead of generating a manifest (destined to be buggy)
• Additional features
  • Tab completion for commands, flags and packages
  • Common command aliases

    For example no need to gues whether it's uninstall, rm or remove.

  • New commands
    • spoon shell, it's kinda like nix-shell
    • spoon versions to list all available manifests for an app (non autogenerated ones).

For a more detailed list of changes in comparison to scoop, check the table below.

Breaking Changes

• No automatic spoon update calls during install, download, ...
• The --global flag hasn't beren implemented anywhere and I am not planning to do so as of now. If there's demand in the future, I will consider.
• Only kiennq/shim.exe is supported for shimming

  The older shim formats were included in scoop for backwards compatibility reasons. The solution is probably to simply reinstall all currently installed packages via scoop export and scoop import.

Manual Installation

1. Add required buckets

scoop bucket add extras
scoop bucket add biosmarcel "https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/scoopbucket.git"

2. Install spoon

scoop install spoon

If you want to test out the latest "in progress" stuff, try the spoon_pre package instead. It contains potentially unstable or half-finished features. Worst case it will install a package in an unfunctinal state, but won't cause any harm to your OS or other packages.

Updates

Note that self-updating is NOT YET possible. To update, please use scoop update spoon for now.

Runtime dependencies

While spoon is written in Golang, it has runtime dependencies needed for installing. Rewriting those would provide little to no value and cost a lot of value.

• shim.exe - Included in Binary - MIT/Unlicense
• ... TODO

CLI Progress

Progress overview for scoop command implementations. This does NOT include spoon native commands. It shows the current implementation status in terms of scoop compatibility and highlights the differences.

There are basically three levels of implementations (and the states inbetween):

• Native

  Fully reimplemented in spoon, no usage of scoop code

• Partially Native

  Some functionallity is spoon native, but scoop code is still used

• Wrapper

  Only provides autocompletion and documentation, but scoop code does 100% of the execution work.

Command	Implementation Type	Changes
help	Native
search	Native	* Performance improvements * JSON output * Search configuration
download	Native	* Support for multiple apps to download at once
cat	Native	* Alias manifest * Allow getting specific manifest versions
status	Native	* --local has been deleted (It's always local now) * Shows outdated / installed things scoop didn't (due to bugs)
depends	Native (WIP)	* Adds --reverse/-r flag * Prints an ASCII tree by default
update	Partially Native	* Now invokes status after updating buckets
bucket	Partially Native	* bucket rm now supports multiple buckets to delete at once
install	Native (WIP)	* Installing a specific version doesn't generate manifests anymore, but uses an old existing manifest and sets the installed app to held.
uninstall	Native (WIP)	* Terminate running processes
info	Wrapper
unhold	Wrapper
hold	Wrapper
list	Wrapper
reset	Wrapper
alias	Planned Next
cleanup	Planned Next
shim	Planned Next
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