aptly vs R-universe
aptly
aptly.infoR-universe
r-universe.devSide by side
| Figure | aptly | R-universe |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Package Registries | 8.8 (#4) | 7.5 (#20) |
| Integrations | The integrations page lists community tools and examples including Molior, OpenAPT, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack. | Setting up a universe requires a GitHub account and the R-universe GitHub app, while package repositories may be hosted on other public Git servers such as GitLab. |
| Intended users | The overview describes aptly as a tool for maintaining repeatable, controlled package environments and publishing repositories consumed by apt on Debian systems. | The documentation is for R users, package developers, universe developers, and people interested in contributing to the infrastructure or documentation. |
| Purpose | aptly manages Debian repositories by mirroring remote repositories, managing local package repositories, taking snapshots, pulling package versions with dependencies, and publishing repositories. | R-universe is rOpenSci’s platform for publishing and discovering research software in R. |
Plans
In their own words
aptly
aptly manages Debian package repositories and publishes controlled package sets for systems that use apt. It can mirror remote repositories, maintain local repositories, pull selected package versions with dependencies, and publish repositories. Immutable snapshots can be compared, merged, filtered, searched and used to create repeatable package environments with controlled changes and rollback to earlier versions. Mirroring supports regular and flat repositories over HTTP(S) and FTP, with filters for architectures, components and packages. Packages from mirrors and local repositories are kept in a deduplicated pool that can be searched and cleaned up. Repositories can be published to local storage, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Azure or JFrog Artifactory Storage, and signed with a user-provided GnuPG key. aptly is free and available as a CLI tool and HTTP REST service. Its REST API has no authentication or protection, and the embedded web server is described as unsuitable for production use.
R-universe
R-universe is rOpenSci’s platform for publishing and discovering research software in R. Its searchable catalogue covers R software, articles, and datasets, using R-specific indexing and ranking. Package and universe pages provide detailed information and rendered material. Users and developers can run personal CRAN-like package repositories whether or not they publish packages on CRAN; R-universe builds and deploys packages from Git repositories into installation repositories. It also provides a continuous integration development environment without configuration to help identify potential breakage before release. WebAssembly binary support is experimental. Publishing a packages.json registry requires a GitHub account and the R-universe GitHub app, although package repositories may be hosted on other public Git servers such as GitLab. Unauthenticated APIs support listing universes and packages, retrieving package information, and searching. The service is free at free and is available through web, API, Linux, macOS, and Windows. rOpenSci initiated and governs the platform. R-universe does not vet packages; each universe owner is responsible for policies and quality control.