I will for the foreseeable future keep this compatible with new nu versions, but

• i wont add new features / packages.
• when a alternative has properly matured i will archive this.
• I'm no longer using it myself and therefore might not notice new bugs.

Suggestion:

• New users: use a active alternative.
• Old users: if packer does everything you need keep using it until it breaks or something else matures.
• Package devs: use the nupm format (all of the most promising projects support it).

A alternative overview can be found here.

A packer.nvim inspired package-manager for NuShell.

Newest officially supported NuShell version: 0.107.x
Should work with NuShell version: >= 0.88.x

Notice: It works on GNU/Linux and Windows, but macos and bsd are probably similar enough to work as well.

Install command: nu -c (http get https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jan9103/packer.nu/master/install.nu)

You have to reopen nu afterwards.

~/.config/nushell/packages.nuon contains your package list and packer-configuration.
A example config:

{
  packages: [
    # the config should specify packer.nu itself in order to allow automatic updates.
    {source: 'jan9103/packer.nu'}  # -> https://github.com/jan9103/packer.nu
    # any git-repository URI, which is not password protected should be supported
    {source: 'https://codeberg.org/packer.nu/bookmarks.git'}
    # you can also use local directories
    # this symlinks the directory and wont update it with `packer update`.
    {source: '~/code/my_packer_nu_plugin'}
  ]
}

To install new packages run packer install.

To update installed packages run packer update.

• Source Code: CodeBerg, GitHub
• The Wiki / Documentation: CodeBerg, GitHub
• NuShell