# Install wally with Homebrew, Nix, winget Modern package manager for Roblox projects inspired by Cargo. Version 0.3.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:wally ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install wally ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#wally ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wa/wally/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Windows - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id Ty&Neal.Wally -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Ty&Neal.Wally from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:wally - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.3.2 - **Source summary:** Modern package manager for Roblox projects inspired by Cargo - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MPL-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T14:06:38-07:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - wally (cli) - wally (alias) ## Dependencies - openssl@3 ## Build dependencies - pkgconf - rust ## Uses from macOS - bzip2 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.3.2 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-22 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/UpliftGames/wally - Upstream latest detected: v0.3.2 (current) ## Project history and usage Wally is the package manager for Roblox projects maintained by Uplift Games. It borrows its mental model from Cargo and npm: packages have manifests, dependency constraints, lockfiles, registries, and a command-line client, but the output is shaped for Roblox and Luau workflows. ### Project history Wally's first public GitHub release, v0.1.0, was published on August 3, 2021 and explicitly introduced it as a new package manager for Roblox in early alpha form. Later 2021 releases quickly added a public website, public authentication, development dependencies, and improvements to dependency resolution and package links. The project is split between a `wally` command-line tool and registry services. The README describes the official registry as a Git repository containing the package index plus a registry API for downloading, searching, and publishing package contents, an architecture directly inspired by Cargo and crates.io. By v0.3.2 in June 2023, the release notes called link generation and dev dependencies stable, reported much faster package downloads through parallelized installation, and improved lockfiles. The repository has not followed a rapid stable-release cadence since then, but the public index and package website continue to represent the production package ecosystem. ### Adoption history Wally's adoption is tied to the professionalization of Roblox development outside Roblox Studio. Rojo's documentation lists Wally alongside tools such as Selene, StyLua, and Moonwave as part of the file-based Roblox workflow, and Uplift Games presents Wally with Rojo as part of its open source tooling for scalable, collaborative Roblox projects. The registry includes widely used Roblox packages such as Cmdr, Roact, Promise, TestEZ, Knit, Janitor, and RbxUtil-family packages. Third-party library documentation commonly instructs developers to add dependencies to `wally.toml`, run `wally install`, and sync the generated Packages folder through Rojo. ### How it is used A typical project runs `wally init`, edits `wally.toml` to declare package metadata and dependencies, runs `wally install`, and commits the resulting lockfile so the team resolves the same package versions. The generated Packages folder is then mapped into Roblox services such as ReplicatedStorage through Rojo. Package authors use Wally to publish reusable Luau modules to a scoped registry, while teams use it to avoid manually vendoring and updating common libraries. Its package-nerd role is to bring standard package-manager discipline to an ecosystem that historically relied on model files, copied modules, and ad hoc GitHub downloads. ### Timeline - 2021-08-03: v0.1.0 launched as the first public Wally release. - 2021-10-01: v0.2.1 announced the public wally.run website. - 2021-11-11 and 2021-11-12: v0.3.0 and v0.3.1 added and iterated on dev-dependency support. - 2023-06-05: v0.3.2 stabilized link generation and dev dependencies and improved install performance. ### Sources - - - - - - - - ## Security Notes infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger risk:** orange / medium - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: wally.toml ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** wally - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - wally: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wa/wally/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget - Ty&Neal.Wally: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Ty&Neal.Wally from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix - winget - UpliftGames.wally: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: UpliftGames.wally from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Related links - [Package publisher tools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/package-publishers/) - Belongs to a package publishing or registry command family. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [openssl@3](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [orogene](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/orogene/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, package-manager, rust. - [uv](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/uv/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, package-manager, rust. - [akku](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/akku/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, package-manager. - [bower](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bower/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, package-manager. - [cabal-install](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cabal-install/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, package-manager. - [cargo-binstall](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-binstall/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, rust. - [clib](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/clib/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, package-manager. - [composer](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/composer/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, package-manager. - [micromamba](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/micromamba/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, management, manager. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wally.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/wally.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph