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Some more things to consider--sorry still nothing concrete:
Just a couple of random thoughts, which may or more likely may not have value.
/usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/<package-name>/<package-version>
) that is out of the way, not on the PATH etc. and then symbolic links are created in /usr/local/<lib|bin|include|share|etc>
/usr/local/
/usr/local/
user rwx
or installing elsewhere/usr/local/flatpack/...
with sym link in PATH-visible. Something similar to the python site package. Moreover, the homebrew formulas seem very nice (with the versioning plus). As the integration with FoBiS.py I suggest more careful: I think it is better to integrate first well established building systems (Make, CMake, Scons,...) and in the future support integration with FoBiS (that is very immature). I finally suggest to @cmacmackin to create a team for FLATPack thus we can join you.
I really like the idea of a homebrew-like package manager and I share the importance of the points already mentioned.
On my side I just wanted to say that I wrote some time ago a very very very primitive version of a package manager that I use to install a number of Fortran packages, personal software I wrote and other useful numerical stuff. You can find it on my page:
https://github.com/aamaricci/Bootstrap-libs
It is a bash script that retrieve, clone and install packages that I keep in a suitable form on my page. On one side this is handy because everything is based on git, one only need to provide a suitable Makefile. The bad thing is that each package needs some kind of repackaging to fulfil few rules. You can take a look at the repackage of Lapack,Blas,etc..
I'd like to raise two points: