I generally like the idea of a Muon Discover frontend for the Windows installer.
In fact I think I even suggested that to some random KDE-on-Windows hacker after seeing Aleix's talk at one of the previous Akademies (maybe two or three years ago?) Having that said: On Wednesday, 2014-07-02, 13:53:57, John Layt wrote: > Microsoft did announce a while back a project to build a package > manager for Windows, but I haven't been following where that is up to. > I can't even remember what it was called. A quick Google suggests > NuGet/CoApp is the result? There are also other FOSS attempts to add > package management to Windows, but we should really all work together > to get one single functional and supported way of doing this for > everyone, so a Microsoft supported solution is preferable albeit with > the usual caveats about relying on anything from Microsoft. Either > way, having a method to resolve dependencies between binaries is only > half the issue, you still need someone to build and supply those > binaries and I don't see Microsoft doing that any time soon. That's > what KDE for Windows / emerge does already, and CoApp appears to do > for NuGet. There is also http://chocolatey.org/ which seems to be related to NuGet as well. > Even if we have standalone app installers in the Windows App Store > that do some downloading of dependencies in the background, and even > if we have a standard way of resolving those dependencies on Windows, > and even if we have somewhere to download those Windows binaries from, > we will still need to do the exact same thing again on Android and Mac > seeing as neither of them offer native package management. For Android we could probably piggy-back on Ministro. -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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