Package Artifacts

[dlamkins]

This issue is to confirm the details surrounding the output package artifacts.

[dlamkins]

The active proposal is to mimic APT repositories by building an aggregate manifest (simply a list of all other manifests combined into a single JSON object). More in line with the APT method we'd include both a packages and packages.gz with every release. The GZip'd version (packages.gz) will help to ensure that the package list does not become prohibitively large as additional modules are added to the repository.

[dlamkins]

Both package artifacts can be built in a merge action. The raw packages file can be built using a query much like the below:

$PSDefaultParameterValues = @{ '*:Encoding' = 'utf8' }

$manifest = [System.Collections.ArrayList]@()

Get-ChildItem -Path .\ -Recurse -Filter *.json | ForEach-Object {
    $packageManifest = (Get-Content -Path $_.FullName | ConvertFrom-Json)

    [void]$manifest.Add($packageManifest)
}

(ConvertTo-Json $manifest -Depth 8 -Compress) | Write-Host

packages.gz can then be generated with something similar to gzip -f -k ./packages.