Avail Artifact

This is a standalone upstream library that supports Avail project definition and Avail artifact creation for the Avail Programming Language.

Artifact

The Avail Artifact is a versioned package of an Avail library or application.

Avail Artifact Types

At the time of writing this there are two types of Avail Artifacts:

1. LIBRARY - Contains only Avail Roots that can be shared as libraries in
2. APPLICATION - Contains all the components needed to run an Avail application.

Artifact Structure

1. avail-artifact-manifest.txt

The Avail Artifact Manifest file describes the contents of an Avail artifact. It also contains project information that is used when the library is imported into another project. This file is a JSON file but is intentionally provided with .txt extension.

2. Avail-Sources

Contains all the Avail source files packaged in the artifact.

3. artifact-descriptor

The artifact descriptor contains a compact binary format that describes the artifact with:

1. The package type
2. Packaging version
3. Version of the artifact manifest file.

4. all_digests.txt

The digest listing all the source files inclued.

Project

An Avail project is described as an AvailProject. This is represented as a series of files found in the .avail directory of an Avail project. These files are described in Core Avail.