WPM - A Windows Package Manager

WPM is a project to bring one of the strongest aspects of Linux systems to Windows users: a wealth of quality, free/open source software installable from a central, client-based repository. Currently Windows users must seek out the software, download it, and install it; WPM intends to replace this with a client that acts as a "shopping mall" for free and open source software--all of it downloaded and installed with one click, and uninstallable the same way.

GSoC 2007 is over! My CVS on sourceforge is a little gnarly right now; if you'd like to access it you can find it at the SourceForge project page (it won't be at that address long, I'll be moving it to Google Code). If you'd like less user-hostile versions, check out the latest binary or the snapshot of my development environment, with code and the project files to compile it.

This site may be moving to my university's servers in the near future.

Design
Essays and papers regarding the future implementation of WPM.

• Program Specifications
  March 20, 2007
  Thoughts and preliminary ideas about how programs must be set up in the WPM packages. All very subject-to-change, but decent for initial discussion and work, I think.
  
• A Windows-Based Application Packaging System
  The original piece written as an application for the Google Summer of Code project. I'd already written up some notes on the project and had been interested in working on this project before WinLibre posted it on their SoC ideas page.
  

Implementation
Any downloadable code related to WPM.

• Nothing to see here yet. Will upload when some of it shows.
  

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