#InterSystems Package Manager (IPM)

We released a new version of ZPM, with a set of great enhancements:

• $zpm function
• new arguments for search command
• and more!

See the details below

Hi Developers!

Thank you for using ZPM Package Manager and contributing more and more useful packages to the public registry!

But as you already aware ZPM packages are always deployed with source code.

Do you think we need to add the option to deploy without source code - e.g. if you want to deploy a commercial package?

Will you develop commercial modules if there will be an option and deploy it with ZPM?

How do you deploy commercial applications today?

We released a new version of ZPM (Package Manager)

New in ZPM 0.2.10 release:

1) FileCopy

Added some improvements to already existing tag FileCopy

Example of module.xml

Hi Developers,

Please welcome another "Coding Talk" video specially recorded for the second IRIS Programming Contest:

⏯ How to Build, Test and Publish ZPM Package with REST Application for InterSystems IRIS

https://www.youtube.com/embed/NVEOe-F5O80
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Hello,

We're considering adopting the ZPM solution as a way to manage many of our customer updates.
However in order to do so we need to know a few things.

Hi developers!

Sometimes we need to test this or that library, framework, or function vs some dataset. And often we want to deal with some meaningful data.

Recently I added two very simple but meaningful datasets that could be installed with one line.

Titanic Dataset

Application

Contains 800+ records about passengers from the famous cruise liner. The dataset could be installed with:

zpm "install dataset-titanic"

This installs one class dc.data.Titanic with 800+ records.

Countries dataset

Application

The dataset contains data about 167 countries such as population, surface, capital, the average life expectancy. The dataset could be installed as:

zpm "install dataset-countries"

This installs one class dc.data.Countries and the global with data.

A new release of ZPM has been published 0.5.0

New in this release

• Added support for Python's requirements.txt file
• Using tokens for publishing packages
• Fixed various issues

Python's requirements.txt

Now, if your project uses Python embedded and requires some Python's dependencies, you can add requirements.txt file to the project, as usual for any Python project, file have to be in the root of a project next to module.xml. And with load command or install command, ZPM will install dependencies from that file with using pip.

We received the following error while publishing your package declarative-objectscript:
ERROR #6901: XSLT XML Transformer Error: unable to determine file base pathname in at line 0 offset 0
InterSystems OpenExchange Team

Anyone faced with?

I'm playing with ZPM. Accidentally dropped a production. How can I recreate it programmatically? I see Ens.Director.StartProduction, StopProduction, and even DeleteProduction but I don't see CreateProduction anywhere. Please help 😊

I am trying to write the module.xml for a package that creates a web application associated with the %SYS namespace.

InterSystems and the developer community around ZPM have been working together to take ZPM to the next level, building it into IRIS and making it a tool that can not only manage 3rd-party code, but key parts of InterSystems' products. You can hear a lot more on this topic at Global Summit 2022, and attend an experience lab to get hands-on.

During a discussion of implementing a private ZPM Registry
I met the question of how to unpublish (or lock) a published package.

Digging articles and docu up and down I was unable to find an answer.
Any hint on where to search is welcome.

NB. local install / uninstall is clear.

I'm just starting off with ZPM and noticed that examples of library-type packages and full applications abound, but I have not unearthed any that demonstrate packaging an interop production. It doesn't seem like it would be too big of a jump from a full application to an interop production, but that is likely ignorance speaking.

So, does anybody know if this is possible/advisable -- or if I am just way off on the intent of ZPM?

Thanks!

Hooray!

I'm pleased to announce that 100 ZPM modules are available in the public InterSystems IRIS zpm-repository! Now!