windows-get / News: Recent posts

Its been a while since i've looked at this project but I've started back up and am working on adding a few new features into win-get in the next few months. Here is a list of planned enhancements:

- MD5 Checking
- Integration with antivirus software (probably clam at first)
- Integration with active directory
- User modifiable repository (this has been the hardest part of this project, to maintain with just one person)
- PHP based script installer for creating other repositories.
- GUI interface (this will use the cmd line version not replace it)
- Expanded / Improved website with better user options.... read more

The 1.x series of win-get provides an online restore system for managing applications via the website as well as a new repository system that communicates via xml. Many bugs have been fixed and code has been cleaned. If you would like to be a repository maintainer and gain access to all of the links for all of the applications in the database please email me at: ryan.proctor@gmail.com

The next stage of the 1.x release is an expanded up to date repository of applications using my team of volunteers as well as hosting a set of applications that support automated uninstall.... read more

A new win-get gui is in the works along with some major fixes to the command line client.

A new release of win-get has been made available for download. Many bug fixes and enhancements have been added to the client. You can check the entire changelog out here:
http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/changelog.txt

A firefox extension for submitting app requests into the repsoitory has been created and is now available at: http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/winget.xpi

You can view the apps suggested into the system at:
http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/viewrequests.php

All of the bad links in the repository have been repaired.

The new version of the repository is now begin hosted at:
http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/winget.php

Update your win-get.conf files to reflect this change. I will leave the old hosting location up and running for now but only the sourceforge version will be updated continuously.

Also the main page for the project is now at:
http://windows-get.sourceforge.net

The win-get application repsitory is now online! All files are being retrieved from the developers own hosting. (The repository doesn't host just maintains links to where the files are at.) The repository currently includes over 100 of the most popular windows applications, and supports silient installation for about half of them.
You can view the current list at:
http://ryan.shinola.org/winget/listapps.php

Version Beta 4 released with an inno setup. win-get is an automated install system and software repository for Microsoft Windows written in pascal (for the command line client) and php for the online repository. The ideas for its creation come from apt-get and other related tools for the *nix platforms.