Lite XL Plugin Manager (lpm)

A standalone binary that provides an easy way of installing, and uninstalling plugins from lite-xl, as well as different version of lite-xl.

Can be used by a package manager plugin that works from inside the editor and calls this binary.

Also contains a plugin_manager.lua plugin to integrate the binary with lite in the form of an easy-to-use GUI.

By default in releases, lpm will automatically consume the manifest.json in the latest branch of this repository, which corresponds to the most recent versioned release.

Conforms to SCPS3.

Status

lpm 1.0 has been just released, and so may still contain bugs, but is generally feature-complete.

Specification

For details about the manifest.json files that lpm consumes, see here.

Quickstart

The fastest way to get started with lpm is to simply pull a release.

wget https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/download/latest/lpm.x86_64-linux -O lpm && chmod +x lpm

If you want to get the GUI version installed with lite-xl, you can tell lpm to install plugin_manager, which will allow you to access Plugin Manager: Show in the command palette in lite-xl.

./lpm install plugin_manager --assume-yes

Compilation

If you have a C compiler, and git, and want to compile from scratch, you can do:

git clone https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager.git \
  --shallow-submodules --recurse-submodules && cd lite-xl-plugin-manager &&\
  ./build.sh -DLPM_STATIC && ./lpm
````

If you want to build it quickly, and have the right modules installed, you can
do:

./build.sh -lgit2 -lzip -llua -lm -lmbedtls -lmbedx509 -lmbedcrypto -lz -DLPM_STATIC

OR

gcc src/lpm.c lib/microtar/src/microtar.c -Ilib/microtar/src -lz -lgit2 \ -lzip -llua -lm -lmbedtls -lmbedx509 -lmbedcrypto -o lpm

CI is enabled on this repository, so you can grab Windows and Linux builds from the
`continuous` [release page](https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/tag/continuous),
which is a nightly, or the `latest` [release page](https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/tag/latest),
which holds the most recent released version.

There are also tagged releases, for specified versions.

You can get a feel for how to use `lpm` by typing `./lpm --help`.

You can also use `scoop` to grab `lpm`, courtesy of @cvladan:

scoop install https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cvladan/416c1945c9e446a6fc64ba766d6ee4ef/raw/lite-xl-plugin-manager.json

## Supporting Libraries / Dependencies

As seen in the `lib` folder, the following external libraries are used to
build `lpm` as git submodules:

* `lua` (core program written in)
* `mbedtls` (https/SSL support)
* `libgit2` (accessing git repositories directly)
* `libz` (supporting library for everything)
* `libzip` (for unpacking .zip files)
* `libmicrotar` (for unpacking .tar.gz files)

To build, `lpm` only requires a C compiler. To run the underlying build process
for `mbedtls` and `libgit2`, `cmake` is also required.

## Supported Platforms

`lpm` should work on all platforms `lite-xl` works on; but releases are offered for the following:

* Windows x86_64
* Linux x86_64
* MacOS x86_64
* MacOS aarch64
* Android 8.0+ x86_64
* Android 8.0+ x86
* Android 8.0+ aarch64
* Android 8.0+ armv7a

Experimental support (i.e. doesn't work) exists for the following platforms:

* Linux riscv64

## Use in CI

To make pre-fab lite builds, you can easily use `lpm` in CI. If you had a linux build container, you could do something like:

```sh
curl https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/download/v0.1/lpm.x86_64-linux > lpm
export LITE_USERDIR=lite-xl/data && export LPM_CACHE=/tmp/cache
./lpm add https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-plugin-manager && ./lpm install plugin_manager lsp

Usage

lpm install aligncarets
lpm uninstall aligncarets

lpm --help

Building & Running

Linux & MacOS & Windows MSYS

./build.sh clean && ./build.sh -DLPM_STATIC && ./lpm

Linux -> Windows

./build.sh clean && CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc AR=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-ar WINDRES=x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres \
CMAKE_DEFAULT_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM=NEVER\ -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=NEVER -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=NEVER -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/share/mingw-w64/include"\
  GIT2_CONFIGURE="-DDLLTOOL=x86_64-w64-mingw32-dlltool" ./build.sh -DLPM_STATIC -DLPM_VERSION='"'$VERSION-x86_64-windows-`git rev-parse --short HEAD`'"'

Tests

To run the test suite, you can use lpm to execute the test by doing ./lpm test t/run.lua. use FAST=1 ./lpm test t/run.lua to avoid the costs of tearing down and building up suites each time.

Bugs

If you find a bug, please create an issue with the following information:

Your operating system.
The commit or version of LPM you're using (lpm --version for releases).
The exact steps to reproduce in LPM invocations, if possible from a fresh LPM install (targeting an empty folder with --userdir).