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Homebrew is still here to stay. If Apple provide a package manager, then it likely that people will swarm to that but again it depends on how much capabilities

Homebrew is still here to stay. If Apple provide a package manager, then it likely that people will swarm to that but again it depends on how much capabilities and feature parity it have over other package managers. Microsoft is working on this with their Winget. Homebrew is great for casual and daily users since we don't have to keep hunting for software updates. And Homebrew does have a progress bar for each app. The bar is for the downloading but other than that, I don't think it need a progress bar for installtion since they are quick to install than using the GUI installation.

pxc 5y ago
Winget isn't really a package manager so much as an installer wrangler and frontend for the Microsoft App store. Of the nearly 30,000 manifest files inside the winget repo, fewer than 150 of them define a single dependency. The rest run executable installers that can do basically anything, or just grab an app from the Microsoft Store. It doesn't do anything to eliminate the chaos of every program doing whatever the fuck it wants to get itself installed or create a common ecosystem of integrated packages, which are the main points of package management. Winget also lacks most of the core functionality of a package manager, including knowing how to uninstall anything at all. But uninstallation will never work reliably on winget anyway, as long as winget an installer wrangler, because installer wranglers inherit unreliable and bespoke per-package installation/uninstallation procedures from existing Windows apps. After a year and a half in public, Winget is still just Chocolatey but faster and much worse in every other respect. There's basically nothing on offer on Windows if you want a package manager instead of just some automation wrapping executable installers. (Scoop is the closest thing, and it's sort of just now swinging back from the verge of death after months in limbo.) The fact that Microsoft announced a project and called it a package manager has done more or less nothing to change that.

pxc 5y ago

Winget isn't really a package manager so much as an installer wrangler and frontend for the Microsoft App store. Of the nearly 30,000 manifest files inside the winget repo, fewer than 150 of them define a single dependency. The rest run executable installers that can do basically anything, or just grab an app from the Microsoft Store. It doesn't do anything to eliminate the chaos of every program doing whatever the fuck it wants to get itself installed or create a common ecosystem of integrated packages, which are the main points of package management. Winget also lacks most of the core functionality of a package manager, including knowing how to uninstall anything at all. But uninstallation will never work reliably on winget anyway, as long as winget an installer wrangler, because installer wranglers inherit unreliable and bespoke per-package installation/uninstallation procedures from existing Windows apps. After a year and a half in public, Winget is still just Chocolatey but faster and much worse in every other respect. There's basically nothing on offer on Windows if you want a package manager instead of just some automation wrapping executable installers. (Scoop is the closest thing, and it's sort of just now swinging back from the verge of death after months in limbo.) The fact that Microsoft announced a project and called it a package manager has done more or less nothing to change that.