On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Justin Dolske <dol...@mozilla.com> wrote: > http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192950-windows-10-will-come-with-a-command-line-package-manager-much-to-the-lament-of-linux-users > > "With Windows 10, however, we are finally getting an official package > manager: OneGet. In the current build of Windows 10 Technical Preview, you > can open up PowerShell and use OneGet to install thousands of applications > with commands such as Find-Package VLC and Install-Package Firefox." > > Anyone know how the OneGet works? Are they actually repackaging and > redistributing Firefox in some new format (which would be, uhm, surprising)?
Appears[1] to be a "package manager manager" that can wrap multiple package sources with one interface. Wrapping Chocolatey[2] is mentioned most, so probably it uses their scripts. The Firefox package[3] seems to just download our usual EXE. [1]: https://github.com/OneGet/oneget [2]: https://chocolatey.org/ [3]: https://chocolatey.org/packages/Firefox _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
