On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> I think your message would be better addressed to the debian-devel mailing >> list, who I have copied in to this reply so that more Debian Developers are >> aware of it. (There's also the Apt developer's mailing list at the >> harder-to-discover de...@lists.debian.org who I have not copied in, as they >> are >> likely all on -devel anyway) >> >> Personally (although I am not an Apt developer) I think it sounds like an >> interesting idea, and there is some precedent as APT was the basis of the >> "Fink" package management system for Apple Mac OS X. Not re-inventing the >> wheel is a very good idea, lots of package management problems have been >> discovered and solved with APT already (and it's sad to see things like Ruby >> gems, Go packages etc. re-discover the very same problems over and over >> again) > > Looks like Microsoft went with a Linux syscall emulation layer for the > Windows kernel: > > http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html
Maybe worth mentioning... Some Microsoft tools use NuGet (https://www.nuget.org/). Visual Studio uses it for its developer-to-developer gallery of widgets and gadgets. I don't think Microsoft will ever support a first class package manager. They are trying to achieve exclusivity and vendor lock-in through their app store, and a general package manager violates the corporate goals. Jeff
