Making Fragment Based Code Distribution Practical
Assigned to Dennis Hieber.
Package managers for programming languages are becoming more and more prevalent with only few languages not having one. The packages that one can add to a project with these tools are stored in an online repository, where users can share their work and make it available to other developers. This has led to huge increase in productivity. Fragnix is a prototype that is built around the idea of not sharing huge packages, that can contain several module files but rather the smallest possible unit of distribution: single functions. This thesis explains what was necessary to turn the Fragnix prototype from a tool, that could extract single definitions from Haskell modules into its own files, into a package manager, that transmits these files over the internet to integrate them in a user’s project.