whyrusleeping/gx

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases

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1866 stars · 109 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

gx is a language-agnostic package manager built on IPFS's content-addressed storage, providing reproducible packages identified by content hashes. It supports multiple language ecosystems via hooks and was used to manage dependencies in go-ipfs.

Use cases

• manage dependencies in a go project without a central registry
• publish packages to a distributed content-addressed network
• get reproducible package installs via content hashes
• use one package manager across multiple language ecosystems
• distribute packages over ipfs instead of npm or central registries

When to choose

• your project already lives in the IPFS ecosystem
• you want content-addressed, reproducible package distribution
• you need a language-agnostic packaging tool with ecosystem hooks

When to avoid

• you need a mature, actively developed package manager - gx is alpha quality and largely unmaintained
• you don't want to run an IPFS daemon or rely on public gateways
• your ecosystem has a well-supported native package manager like npm or go modules

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

package-manager cli developer-tools developer-tools microservices windows cli go ipfs content-addressed language-agnostic dependency-management go command-line linux macos

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