New package manager from M$... article
here.
It seems doubtful that M$ 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.
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).
"trusted repositories" sounds more like Perl's CPAN.
One
of the links contains this quote: "This first version of
OneGet installs and searches software from Chocolatey repositories.
Support of additional repositories will come in subsequent
versions."
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.
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???
Just a heads up.