Wipt

Description

Wipt (Windows Installer Package Tool) is a tool similar to the APT tool in Debian GNU/Linux. It reads an XML file with metadata about packages available, either locally or over HTTP, as well as transforms and patches for those packages. It then allows the user to install those packages non-interactively from the command line.

Platform

Wipt is designed to run on Windows 2000 and up, and requires version 1.1 of the .NET Framework.

Status

Wipt is ostensibly a project of the Special Interest Group for Windows Development at UIUC, and there is a project site for it there. However, its current incarnation was wholly written by me, and whether SIGWin will continue development now that I have left remains to be seen.

Nor do I anticipate any further development on my part. The unfortunate truth is that getting the "apt-get install" experience on Windows would require a lot more than just a Windows version of apt-get. While I believe that Wipt could be a useful tool, I do not have any great need for it, and I don't know of anyone who does.

License

Copyright (c) 2006 Association for Computing Machinery at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All rights reserved.

Developed by: Special Interest Group for Windows Development
              ACM@UIUC
              http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigwin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal with
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
subject to the following conditions:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
  list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this
  list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or
  other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the names of SIGWin, ACM@UIUC, nor the names of its contributors
  may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without
  specific prior written permission.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS
OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR
IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE
SOFTWARE.

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