<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 29, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Glenn Linderman <<a href="mailto:v+python@g.nevcal.com" class="">v+python@g.nevcal.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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New package manager from M$... article <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-oneget-a-linux-style-package-management-framework" class="">here</a>.<br class="">
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It seems doubtful that M$ will eliminate .msi (their obscure, hard
to configure and use, installation format), so it seems doubtful
that the addition of OneGet will _force_ any changes to Python
packaging.<br class="">
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However, it does open the question in my mind about whether there
will be any _benefits_ of OneGet that would inspire helpful, useful
changes to Python packaging. They speak of "trusted repositories",
and the like, and it sounds like a the various *nix package managers
(apt-get, et alia), but perhaps allowing multiple repositories
rather than just a single source vendor repository (I'm actually not
sure if *nix package managers allow multiple repositories or not,
but from the way people talk about them, it always sounds like a
"distribution" also provides "a repository" of additional packages).<br class="">
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"trusted repositories" sounds more like Perl's CPAN.<br class="">
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<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx" class="">One
of the links</a> contains this quote: "This first version of
OneGet installs and searches software from Chocolatey repositories.
Support of additional repositories will come in subsequent
versions."<br class="">
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I have no clue what a Chocolatey repository is (yet, will Google),
but unknown others will come, it says... whether it is possible to
write a "repository plugin" such that Perl's CPAN or Python's PyPI
or other preexisting repositories can be accessed is not clear.<br class="">
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The relationship between PowerShell and OneGet is not clear
either... is OneGet written in PowerShell, or is PowerShell just one
way to invoke OneGet, or???<br class="">
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Just a heads up.<br class="">
<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>It appears to be a package manager manager. Chocolatey is one of the third party package managers available on Windows.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I also just learned that OneGet is apparently OSS and developed on github (<a href="https://github.com/OneGet/oneget" class="">https://github.com/OneGet/oneget</a>).</div><br class=""><div class="">
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