Installer kore avec Homebrew, Nix, apt

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• kodev
• kore

Historique du projet

The official site describes Kore as a platform for scalable, concurrent web processes in C or Python, with privilege separation and operating-system security features such as seccomp, pledge, and unveil. The official source browser lists Joris Vink as the dominant author across release tags and commits.

Kore's tagged release history reaches at least 1.1-release on 2014-03-01. The project moved through 2.0.0 in 2016, 3.x in 2018 and 2019, and 4.x beginning with 4.0.0 on 2020-08-26. The 4.2.0 documentation series was tagged on 2022-03-18, and the public site lists 4.2.3 as the release displayed on its front page.

Historique d'adoption

Kore did not become a mainstream web framework in the way higher-level language frameworks did, but it found a niche among developers who want a compact C/Python server with explicit TLS, worker, and security controls. The official site says it has been used in high-assurance cryptographic devices, machine-learning stacks, and aerospace applications.

Its package-manager adoption is specialist: Homebrew, Nix, and Ubuntu packaging in the input data put it in reach of systems programmers who want to experiment with or deploy C-based web services without manually building from upstream tarballs.

Modes d'utilisation

Kore applications are built around project files such as `conf/kore.conf` and `conf/build.conf`, with `kodev` helping create and build projects. Users choose it when they want a self-contained server/application framework rather than a library embedded inside a larger HTTP server.

The Python runtime work visible in the source history shows Kore evolving beyond pure C services while retaining its operating-system-level security posture.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Kore is package-nerd significant because it keeps alive a specific kind of Unix tool: a lean, source-available web platform with first-class TLS, privilege separation, and explicit server controls.

For Homebrew users, it is the kind of formula that exposes a lesser-known systems framework without needing language-specific package managers or application scaffolding.

Chronologie

• 2014-03-01: 1.1-release tag appears in the official source browser.
• 2016-08-01: 2.0.0-release tag appears.
• 2018-07-09: 3.0.0-release tag appears.
• 2020-08-26: 4.0.0 tag appears.
• 2022-03-18: 4.2.0 tag appears.
• 2022-08-22: 4.2.3 tag appears.

Related projects

• Kore belongs near other C or systems-oriented HTTP stacks such as nginx modules, libevent/libev-based servers, h2o, facil.io, civetweb, and embedded HTTP frameworks.
• Its security model also relates it to OpenBSD-originated ideas such as pledge and unveil, and to Linux seccomp-based service hardening.

Sources

• https://docs.kore.io/4.2.0/
• https://git.kore.io/kore/
• https://git.kore.io/kore/refs.html
• https://kore.io/