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Apt-get for windows for all your Free as in Beer apps
windows-get.sourceforge.net — win-get is an automated install system and software repository for Microsoft Windows written in pascal (for the command line client) and php for the online repository. The ideas for its creation come from apt-get and other related tools for the *nix platforms.
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- tomhung, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9i use the profile feature to reinstall my config from box to box. sweetness.
even without the profile feature i can rebuild a box and add all my apps in no time.- insanebrain, on 10/10/2007, -14/+1box ?
- xswag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The computer tower is referred to as a "Box".
- insanebrain, on 10/10/2007, -14/+1box ?
- Chernevog, on 10/10/2007, -5/+22I use this at LAN parties to deploy games to clients... one big whiteboard telling them where to get the installs from my own repository. Took a bit to set up but the last 3 LAN parties ran much more smoothly than people screaming where are all the IP's for the shares!!!.
- osarhan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9now thats need know information!
- fbliss, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Congrats, that was the nerdiest thing ever commented here, and yet, I respect your moves.
- EricAnderton, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Smart. LAN parties can be a real cluster-fsck if someone doesn't put on the Admin hat. Bravo for making it quick and painless.
//Fondly remembers a day when it was all about 10base-T networking, IPX, Mountain Dew and Starcraft + Quake all night long.
////Does not fondly recall setting up *everyone's* network configuration.
- obeleh, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1Im kinda reluctant atm but I'm sure that this is a program with a lot of future
- dtiziani, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2it's future shall be the same as pascal
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Don't know why you are being dugg down. Pascal was an awful choice. Extensibility is not a feature of Pascal.
- dtiziani, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2it's future shall be the same as pascal
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+71Why put this in the Linux section if it is for Windows?
- Acglaphotis, on 10/10/2007, -12/+5Because it's a derivate of a linux program, regardless if its for windows.
- Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Better put all OS X news in Linux/Unix then, since OS X is a derivate of Unix.
- winmywii, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25Because it would have been buried over there.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4How is putting a Windows app in the Linux section any better than burying it? I think you forget there is SOFTWARE section here that is platform-agnostic. Linux users should post cross-platform Linux-derived apps there so that someone other than Linux users might actually learn of their existence.
- Acglaphotis, on 10/10/2007, -12/+5Because it's a derivate of a linux program, regardless if its for windows.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -7/+27apt-get install wubi && wubi --automatic && rm -rf /windows/C
sudo !!- neosublime, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5made some corrections for you:
sudo apt-get install wubi && wubi --automatic && rm -Rf /windows/C - osarhan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8ha! I get it!
- jenel, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2I don't :(
- fusama, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2had to lookup what wubi was to get it. Basically its the same idea as the sys-admin automatic response to any windows problems at the lab I work at: 'format, install linux'
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Actually, neo's suggestion was to "install linux, format".
- fusama, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2had to lookup what wubi was to get it. Basically its the same idea as the sys-admin automatic response to any windows problems at the lab I work at: 'format, install linux'
- jenel, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2I don't :(
- cdmarcus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The only problem being that deleting the C drive removes Wubi as well, but I understand your sentiment.
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Exactly what I was going to say.
- neosublime, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5made some corrections for you:
- KniteWulf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27Does it have win-get moo?
- boredsam, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1great game.
- KniteWulf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I am greatly disappointed. There is no win-get moo.
- eth3l, on 10/10/2007, -30/+1Where are all the "FOX News lies" haters ...oooooo CNN LIES!
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I believe you have the wrong story.
- atrus123, on 10/10/2007, -25/+13Poor Windows people. Always mimicking Linux to make up for an inferior OS.
- mbthompson, on 10/10/2007, -10/+10Yes, it's obvious you have the biggest dick in the room.
/sarcasm - cricoste90, on 10/10/2007, -21/+4Poor Linux people.
Period.- Sparkster185, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Actually, Linux people are at least $100 richer than Windows people.
- kindrobot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4FACT!
- manbearpigm16, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2What about the money they make off of Photoshop? Oh wait gimp = photoshop - $500
/sarcasm
- crsd36, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Except for the pirates
- Sparkster185, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Actually, Linux people are at least $100 richer than Windows people.
- Noctem, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12Is that why every single WINE release ends up on the front page?
- adude, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Yeah, because the one of the best advantages Linux distros have over Windows is easy installation of programs. *eye roll*
- happytron, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The sarcasm used to apply, but modern package managers actually make it really easy. You rarely have to even go to the web to get the programs you need.
- mbthompson, on 10/10/2007, -10/+10Yes, it's obvious you have the biggest dick in the room.
- JonLatane, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29Written in Pascal? Seriously? I mean, I guess if it works...
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Some people like bondage and discipline so Pascal isn't a problem.
- thefezman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9At least it wasn't written in VB... (I'm a VB programmer btw).
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Well VB might be awful but it doesn't chain you down and beat the crap into you until you do all your work the way it wants you to. Pascal isn't a nice language, far too restrictive, coding in it feels like being crushed under a heavy boot.
Also it's insanely weird. A 20 integer array is of different type to a 19 integer array, it means you can't write things like generic sort functions for even arrays of the same type. If you want to sort an array of size x you have to write a function that receives an array of size x. Compare this to Python or Lisp where just about anything where comparisons are meaningful can be sorted by the same function (with Lisp you can pass your own comparison function too).
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Well VB might be awful but it doesn't chain you down and beat the crap into you until you do all your work the way it wants you to. Pascal isn't a nice language, far too restrictive, coding in it feels like being crushed under a heavy boot.
- thefezman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9At least it wasn't written in VB... (I'm a VB programmer btw).
- rb780nm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4nothing wrong with pascal - it was the first language I ever compiled anything on (c64 basic before that, but I don't think I knew how to compile, if that was even an option).
I still work i fortran77 (well, really f90, but its all f77 code - very rarely do I use anything parallel or anything)
Old languages are still around because they work- eean, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I wouldn't go so far as to say that Pascal is "still around". This is the first project I've heard of that uses it. Skype for Windows is written in Delphi, thats as close as it gets.
Fortran is different, GCC has a Fortran compiler.- lengau, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1gpc - The GNU Pascal compiler
The GCC has a Pascal compiler, too.
- lengau, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1gpc - The GNU Pascal compiler
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Did you ever try anything non trivial in it. I'm just glad it's been dropped as the standard educational language. Better not to teach people to program in an inextensible language.
Fortran is another awful language, give me Haskell or Lisp over it any day of the week.- SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Fortran is the best for high performance computing. There are Fortran compilers for everything (specially high performance cluster OSs), and those compilers are way more optimized than anything else. Even though there is a recent trend of using C (that's plain C), most scientific code is still Fortran. Most scientists aren't professional programmers, so a language that doesn't get in their way is fundamental.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Fortran is exactly the sort of language that gets in your way while Lisp and Haskell are languages that focus on what rather than how. Haskell has a very clean syntax for mathematics.
It isn't as performant but that's why we make more powerful processors. The programmers time is worth more than machine time. Hacking Fortran is a PITA.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Fortran is exactly the sort of language that gets in your way while Lisp and Haskell are languages that focus on what rather than how. Haskell has a very clean syntax for mathematics.
- SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Fortran is the best for high performance computing. There are Fortran compilers for everything (specially high performance cluster OSs), and those compilers are way more optimized than anything else. Even though there is a recent trend of using C (that's plain C), most scientific code is still Fortran. Most scientists aren't professional programmers, so a language that doesn't get in their way is fundamental.
- regeya, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Well, it's great as a teaching language--it's somewhat easy to learn, forces one to think about encapsulation, structure, and data types. REALLY anal about data types. Makes you appreciate languages that let you be lazy AND don't blow up on you when you mix data types. Really, that was the only thing I took away from it--an anal-retentive approach to checking for parity between variables. Duck typing still gives me the willies.
- eean, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I wouldn't go so far as to say that Pascal is "still around". This is the first project I've heard of that uses it. Skype for Windows is written in Delphi, thats as close as it gets.
- eean, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Well it means the project will die if the original author ever stops.
- bmcgee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It's written in Delphi. Not a bad choice for a command line app, and an ideal choice for the GUI that's supposed to be in the works.
- NickHodges, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Haven't checked out Pascal lately, I gather. ;-)
http://www.codegear.com/delphi - pebecker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I don't get comments like this. What difference does it make what language something is written in? As if it is superior if written in C? Good code is good code. Delphi, for example, is object Pascal and is used routinely on a daily basis all over the world for apps. It is an excellent choice for GUI-apps, and great for command-line apps too.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Some people like bondage and discipline so Pascal isn't a problem.
- ernasty10050, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8wish i could delete comments...
- spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2wake me up where theres Swaret
- shuffle2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ports, anyone?
- spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1no slackware users out there to digg me up??? :(
- Jomwilli, on 10/10/2007, -15/+2Dugg down for incomprehensible title.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Free as in Beer" should have been hyphenated, Windows should have been capetalised and followed with a comma. /grammar
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Apt-get"-like Functionality for Windows for all your "Free as in beer" Apps
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Free as in Beer" should have been hyphenated, Windows should have been capetalised and followed with a comma. /grammar
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Cool that they can do it, but... what's the point?
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Automatic updates for all your programs?
- shuffle2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5no....only free as in beer programs.
- DarkN00b, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Software that is (virus / spyware / worm / trojan / etc / ad-infinitum) free? As long as the repo maintainer is trustworthy.
- osc1882, on 10/10/2007, -20/+12Are you kidding me? What a waste! It's windows, start donating your coding time to linux. I mean really how long do you want to be sucking Microsoft's dick?
- jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7How is the creation of an install program for free (beer) software "sucking Microsoft's dick"? Does it install Office or Vista on your computer? Granted, this program is borrowing its concept from apt-get, but please don't tell me that there is a Linux distribution that has not borrowed any ideas or concepts from Windows. I think this guy's on to something. Like it or not, the vast majority of computer users in the world use Windows. A tool like this could introduce more of these people to more free (both beer and freedom) software that they wouldn't have heard of before. I just installed a great little program called artrage, that was introduced to me my this app. This is definitely a work in progress, but this program has great potential, and I don't think the developer is sucking anybody's dick.
- hobophobe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The whole point behind apt-get and similar package management tools is to separate the application from the installation. It balances out things like dependencies and uninstallation and upgrading, etc.
Those would be the features I think would be most essential yet they area all absent as far as the site's documentation shows. From the looks of it the best feature it has going for it is the 'remote software list' that apparently lets a user keep a list of programs they wish to be installed on a given system and then execute a full batch install on those programs.
- hobophobe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The whole point behind apt-get and similar package management tools is to separate the application from the installation. It balances out things like dependencies and uninstallation and upgrading, etc.
- arjie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I used to think this way, but this is a way to show a lot of people about the greatness of the repository business. Then they won't go all wonky-eyed when you say you can get all you need from the repositories.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2You're using Linux? Stop sucking the collective dicks of AMD, ATI, ASUS, Creative, and Logitech! Build your own computer out 3 straws, some balsa wood, and a couple of rubber bands.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yay for inexplicable double posts.
- jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7How is the creation of an install program for free (beer) software "sucking Microsoft's dick"? Does it install Office or Vista on your computer? Granted, this program is borrowing its concept from apt-get, but please don't tell me that there is a Linux distribution that has not borrowed any ideas or concepts from Windows. I think this guy's on to something. Like it or not, the vast majority of computer users in the world use Windows. A tool like this could introduce more of these people to more free (both beer and freedom) software that they wouldn't have heard of before. I just installed a great little program called artrage, that was introduced to me my this app. This is definitely a work in progress, but this program has great potential, and I don't think the developer is sucking anybody's dick.
- tdgx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10And just a few weeks ago I was setting up a new dual-boot machine with XP and Ubuntu and thought how Windows needed something like this to speed up installation of applications. Ubuntu took about an hour to be working with a full suite of apps, XP took about four.
Dugg for the time this will save in the future. - Mavosa, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Even if Linux would be a better choice, not everyone is familiar with Linux like they are with Microsoft's OS's, like it or not Microsoft has its OS's on most PCs. I'm actually surprised I haven't known about this in the past, it'd be useful to download common programs required, in case you need to fix someone elses computer, or download your own stuff at work or if you need a particular job done. (I'm assuming its customizable to grab your own stuff from your own server at home).
- Langford, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It seems handy enough for a download utility. If it included a scheduler with auto-update for all the software, then you'd really have something spiffy. A lot of that could probably be done with some clever scripting. As it stands, it would be more appropriate for someone who wanted to group it with a small batch file that grabbed all the stuff they want a system to have right after a clean format.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Auto update is rarely a good idea. Just look at Firefox - every other update invalidates at least one of my extensions.
- akkibaba, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1Great, this is trying to nullify one of the biggest advantages Linux has over Windows...
- TacticalPenguin, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4Hey look, windows trying to be like linux. That's new.
- EricAnderton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hey look, Windows is one step closer to being as *flexible* as linux. That's not new.
- accidental, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4Buried for worst title posting EVAR
- dhbanes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14hrmm.... sudo win-get linux?
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7This is Windows we're talking about. sudo is implied no matter who you're logged in as.
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Wrong topic.
- ernasty10050, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3So...this doesn't update anything. It's good for installing new programs. Great.
- DarkN00b, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Its a work in progress. It'll probably do updating in the near future.
- EricTheGrey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Needs to have a FAQ for the program. There are questions I'd like to answer, like does it compare windows version before downloading? Win98, WinME (unfortunately, people still use this...) XP, etc.
Some programs need specific versions for specific windows versions.
EtG
- broXc, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4The one thing that I like in linux, brought to windows.
Awesome...but like linux itself, I still have no real use for it. - JoyrexJ9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Nice, really nice.
First time in ages to find something useful on digg. wow! - shucklak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Cool idea, needs a lot of work.
For instance, no proxy settings... - pagefaultca, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Half the packages are outdated, and my project (zsnes) isn't even spelled properly, it's listed as znes.
- archer75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Where the hell do I get this free beer?
- Zuggy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This has been around for awhile, but still cool.
- helheim, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Just made my "i_reinstalled_my_windows_yet_again.bat"
win-get sinstall acrobat_reader
win-get sinstall ad-aware
win-get sinstall avg_antivirus
win-get sinstall DeepBurner
win-get sinstall firefox
win-get sinstall flash_player
win-get sinstall vlc_player
win-get sinstall gimp
win-get sinstall google_earth
win-get sinstall google_talk
win-get sinstall python
win-get sinstall picasa
win-get sinstall subversion
win-get sinstall skype
win-get sinstall utorrent
win-get sinstall thunderbird
win-get sinstall winrar- drimo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Register an account on the site, then setup your frequent applications through your profile, then just use "win-get restore" and you don't even need a .bat script!
- hobophobe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Also, replace winrar with 7zip at your leisure (unless there's some functionality I'm not aware of that winrar offers over 7zip?)
- puppetj, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17zip doesnt do multi filed rar's, but IZArc is a great free app!
- PueSi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+47zip does multi-filed RAR's
- brasso, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27zip doesn’t work with 64-bit Vista, at least not when I tried, but WinRar does and it takes advantage of all my four cores. But I actually prefer 7zip, would be nice if there was a version for Linux too that isn’t command line only.
- puppetj, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17zip doesnt do multi filed rar's, but IZArc is a great free app!
- z0rz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I fixed your typos/unnecessary inclusions for you. Here you go:
win-get sinstall Foxit_PDF_Reader
win-get sinstall DeepBurner
win-get sinstall firefox
win-get sinstall flash_player
win-get sinstall vlc_player
win-get sinstall gimp
win-get sinstall google_earth
win-get sinstall pidgin
win-get sinstall python
win-get sinstall picasa
win-get sinstall subversion
win-get sinstall skype
win-get sinstall utorrent
win-get sinstall 7zip- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1utorrent? It better not just have the latest.
- jerr0328, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Maybe someone will do a port of portage (emerge) to Windows. Of course, I imagine many more problems with that due to the fact that everything gets compiled and you're dealing with Windows, which is bound to have some weird errors.
- ElectroBot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2emerge doesn't make sense in windows.
There's very little (percentage-wise) open source software for windows compared to *nix. It's mostly some small utilities that are open source.
- ElectroBot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2emerge doesn't make sense in windows.
- rodgy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Do people find it easier? What about applications that need user output during the install process? Do the questions show up in the terminal? We've fought the terminal usage enough for years on Linux and now it shows up in Windows...I don't understand. Isn't the trend to make things easier?
- maybeway36, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Fought? No, we fought the windows terminal because it's terrible. The Unix terminal is great.
- daniel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3RTA. Using the install switch runs the install in normal mode. However, using "sinstall" makes it run in silent mode.
- jacobee519, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I just remembered the Start>Run dialog box. :P
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Fought using the terminal on Linux"? Are you ***** kidding me? There wouldn't be a Linux or UNIX without the terminal. Even when you can do the basics on just the GUI, the terminal will always be an essential part of Linux.
- Fasta, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Surely these apps are 'free as in speech' - rather than 'free as in beer'... ie, they are open source applications - not just applications without cost.
- dorkino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Worthless:
C:>win-get search pr0n
Using Repository: http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/winget1.php
No matching results found.- ElectroBot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You forgot to include the wildcards (e.g. straight, lesbian, blond, etc.)
- maybeway36, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Can you install mulitple applications at one, like with apt-get?
- dzorz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3This is much more extensive than Google Pack, but it could use nice Google's UI.
- BrandNewJesus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1If you don't -get- the "Free as in Beer"...
Listen to more podcasts, the are only 0 Alex's- Fasta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The submitter clearly doesn't understand the phrase. That is something I am seeing a lot of here, people enthusiastic to the point of evangelism over things they don't understand or have failed to educate themselves on fully.
- pyrates, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2apt-get is needed on linux because no linux distro includes a default packaging format that works across all linux distros, even though their is one called autopackage. Here is part of their faq:
What is autopackage?
For users: it makes software installation on Linux easier. If a project provides an autopackage, you know it can work on your distribution. You know it'll integrate nicely with your desktop and you know it'll be up to date, because it's provided by the software developers themselves. You don't have to choose which distro you run based on how many packages are available.
For developers: it's software that lets you create binary packages for Linux that will install on any distribution, can automatically resolve dependencies and can be installed using multiple front ends, for instance from the command line or from a graphical interface. It lets you get your software to your users quicker, easier and more reliably. It immediately increases your user base by allowing people with no native package to run your software within seconds.
Why doesn't every distro include this? I don't understand it. It's equivalent to windows msi installation format. What possible reason could they have to not include it? I'd like to hear that.- ScreaminIke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3lets say that that dependency is for a different liblame0 than i have... so you go and autopackage the NEW liblame0, and cripple my audacity? no... that's ok. i'll stick w/apt-get. with gdebi, debian packages become like what you want. sudo apt-get install gdebi. use it. ;)
- pyrates, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So you don't want to make it easier on linux developers and want the linux distro's to stay fragmented? Thanks, that's all I needed to know. Besides, this also relegates the apt-get system to just the files that are for the OS, not for the applications. What's wrong with that? And shouldn't a newer library be compatible with applications that use older versions of that library. If not, it should be fixed. Then your scenario goes right out the window.
- xmilky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Maybe you're just a troll, but anyhow:
Apt-get is not required to install packages. You can just click a .deb or .rpm package on a web page, and your Linux distribution of choice installs it. That the package formats are fragmented into divergent formats is not itself the problem. (It's simple to convert between the two.) The real problem lies in the package names and interdependencies. The lack of cross-distribution agreements is why we don't have a unified package format yet. And, btw, that's besides the point anyhow. Which repository and packages your distribution uses, does not actually concern typical users.
You have a point with library incompatibilities in your follow-up post. But that's, alas, just too hard to prevent in open source land - even if the distributions cared about it.
- ScreaminIke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3lets say that that dependency is for a different liblame0 than i have... so you go and autopackage the NEW liblame0, and cripple my audacity? no... that's ok. i'll stick w/apt-get. with gdebi, debian packages become like what you want. sudo apt-get install gdebi. use it. ;)
- joerod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3win-get another great idea from someone else
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1As opposed to.... the same bad idea from you?
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He means it was obviously inspired by "apt" as opposed to, I suppose, being developed by MS.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1As opposed to.... the same bad idea from you?
- there, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 This is actually a huge timesaver rather than just something to fiddle with. I'm impressed.
I'm surprised no one did this sooner on windows. Apt-get on linux distros has always been far superior to the windows clicky-click method of installing things. Now what would be good is a nice clean GUI front end that describes the windows "packages". I think something like that would be a hugely successful app since very few windows users actually ever use the command line. - genotrance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3There's a bunch of other solutions for this problem including one I've created.
AppSnap - http://appsnap.genotrance.com/ (personal plug)
Wpkg - http://wpkg.org/
Windows Package Manager - http://www.winpackman.org/
InstallPad - http://www.installpad.com/- ernasty10050, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Wow! I really like your program. Thanks a lot dude
- geehossiphats, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2MS innovation guru: "Hey I got an idea, lets do it like they do it in Linux!".
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2That innovation guru is Bill Gates and those are the words that came out of his mouth right before he coded MSDOS 1.0.
- NerdyNinja, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I'm a lot less excited now that I've figured out this app doesn't give you free beer.
- puppetj, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0great bring windows back to the cmd dayz...i was gonna say, but that restore option is kinda cool, only if it worked with everything you needed....but i guess its a start, but i think linux needs alot of more working on more then windows before i use it. like not to have 9 cmd's to just install flash, and then have so reason for it to not work, then try to get help at the forums only to eventually get yelled at!
- tokabowla, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Can't wait to try it. When I tune-up systems at my job, we have a regular set of apps we always install, and alot of them are in win-get. It'll make things alot easier & faster for me. win-get is *****!
- IntellEJent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3For you Mac users, Fink (http://finkproject.org) is very similar. :-)
- antitab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Don't forget about MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts): http://www.macports.org/
- cantormath, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1If this wasnt for MS, it would be cooler...........
- slipstream, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0What a pity - utorrent is in the database but there would be no installers for current and newer versions :-/
( http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=264776#p264776 )
And this tool doesn't have support for installing individual self-installing executables. - xmilky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I seriously hope this project doesn't take off. It's not that I wouldn't benefit myself from quicker Windows reinstallations. But I just couldn't stand it, if Windows became as easy to use as Linux distributions. This could kill all incentives to switch to the saner platform. This project is a nice convenience for Windows users, but not exactly to their benefit.
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