Pak Specifications

Pak includes the following components:

• Pak utility program
• Documentation
• Samples
• Source code

Pak Utility

• Install, list and uninstall packages into a local application
• Search for packages to install
• Manage package dependencies
• Update and upgrade packages and their dependencies
• Download to cache and install from the Pak Catalog
• Publish and retract packages in the Pak Catalog
• Access to the Bower and NPM catalogs for thousands of of extra packages
• Export package contents into local "lib" directory
• Package.json overrides to customize installation of third party packages

Pak Catalog

• Pak meta catalog to configure and customize common packages published in Bower or NPM catalogs
• Pak Catalog Web Site to search and browse for packages
• Uses GitHub and NPM as the primary storage repository for packages

Documentation

• Online Documentation
• Local manual page
• Cookbook of samples (cut and paste to get going)
• Tutorials

Platform Support

• Linux (2.6)
• Windows (7, 8)
• MAC OS X (10.7+)

Standards

• CommonJS package standard
• SemVer package versioning standard