Commands

A magnet CLI will the primary way for people to interact with the package manager. It will be a binary which need to be downloaded and installed by the user and will currently not be part of the SuperCollider distribution.

The magnet client mainly is used to

• create a new magnet project
• add dependencies to a magnet project and resolve its dependencies recursively
• set up the environment for an existing magnet project
• bundle packages for release (see Packaging)
• publishing packages on the index (see Publishing a package)

magnet add, remove and update change the manifest and the lock file and install the resulting dependencies into magnet_packages/ right away, which can be skipped via --no-install such that only the files get written. magnet install sets up an existing project, e.g. after cloning it, by installing the dependencies of its lock file.