This project explores ideas how package management could be handled in Nushell and also serves as a test bed to see how it feels to write a full standalone program in Nu.

No permanent installation available. It is most usable as an overlay right now: overlay use nuun/ --prefix.

Nuun expects:

• ~/.nuun/bin to be in your $env.PATH or $env.Path
• ~/.nuun/overlays to be in you $env.NU_LIB_DIRS

overlay hide nuun and any other overlays you might have activated (or just keep calling overlay hide until sufficient).

• nuun root command, does not do much
• nuun new creates a new project (directory project or a script)
• nuun install installs a project into the
• nuun test runs tests

Handled by nuun overlay family of commands and Nushell's overlay mechanism.

nuun overlay new <name> will create a new overlay under ~/.nuun/overlays. Calling overlay use <name>.nu will activate the overlay with PATH/Path pointing at ~/.nuun/overlays/<name>/bin. Any projects installed by nuun install will be installed there.

• Use https://github.com/jntrnr/nu_app to compile to binaries
• Support Windows Path as well
• Add nuun package for installation
• Install project from project containing project.nuon

• Need better handling of help messages of main (compare nu nuun/mod.nu --help vs. overlay use nuun/ --prefix; nuun --help)
  • Might need renaming main to the module name also inside the module
  • We could support running a directory: nu nuun/
• Needs directory as module support
• Need a way to run tests dynamically (see test.nu subcommand, it shouldn't statically include tests/tests.nu)
  • Could be solved by "type-safe" eval
• Command signatures seem to auto-expand args wrong (see new.nu)
• Maybe support running module even with subcommands (nu nuun/nu.nu test)
• Wrong err-val spans (try 2x nuun new spam)
  • Maybe the span is not preserved when going through the signature?
• autoformatter would be great for the auto-generated project.nuon files
• auto-appending to project.nuon should preserve comments