[tor-dev] So Windows is Adding a Package Manager.....

Damian Johnson atagar at torproject.org
Sun May 24 23:16:01 UTC 2020


Welcome Microsoft, to the cutting edge of the 90s! ;P

Kidding aside this could be a great improvement. I'm rooting for them. This
is constrained to Windows installers (exe or msi) but hopefully they expand
this in the future. Distributing interpreted applications (python, ruby,
etc) have always been a PITA. If they make a first rate package manager
like apt or yum this could dramatically improve distributability to their
platform.

Thanks for pointing this out. We distribute Tor Browser as an exe so that
certainly could be a good candidate.


On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:

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> So based on this article here,
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> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/
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> Windows is getting a package manager in the near future,  including
> winget, a Linux like tool that can install and manage packages. With this
> in might  it be possible to add tor as a manageable package for Windows
> (for auto upgrades, install via this method, etc.)?
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> Thx.
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