ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

List of ideas I want to implement in the future.

• Miscellaneous:
  • Rewrite in Rust 🦀
  • Support podman
  • Support private registries and mirrors
    • maybe via registry mapping in config.json?
  • Support local overrides for package versions
    • use merged version to allow partial overrides?
  • Create an index/registry repository
    • Use shards to get better performance in git repositories
      • References:
        • https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
        • https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask
        • opentofu/opentofu#741 (comment)
    • Double check if registered packages are available locally before using them
    • Separate index.json from config.json
      • Allow use to override index.json retrieved from centralized index/repo
• New commands
  • Add auto update hbox upgrade
  • Add hbox update to update index
  • Add hbox register to register a package, even with custom image
  • Add hbox verify to check if there's something wrong with packages or with container engine:
    • Verify if docker or podman are installed and available
      • Verify if there are container images for the current version of each package
  • Add command hbox reshim to regenerate shims
  • Experimental: Identify paths in hbox run to map them via container volumes automatically
• Updated commands:
  • Allow hbox config to support all config.json options
  • Add option to keep containers instead of using --rm
    • maybe adding custom tags to them to identify them easily?
  • Add option to remove images when removing packages via hbox remove/uninstall
  • Add support to colors in hbox run output when possible (*nix only?)
  • On hbox add/install add warn when a shim will conflict with an existing command
• Technical debt:
  • Add unit and integration tests
    • it should run on Linux and Windows