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Hey 👋 I released Ecureuil , a package manager for Windows 2000 or superior, made in C# and WInForms (for .NET 2.0 and .NET 4.5). What's different from others is that it covers all main desktops versions of Windows, from 2000 onwards, including Windows RT and WoA! How it works? It gets various JSONs of the sources you've added to the app from an online place (which can be anything, I suggest to you to use GitHub Pages but you can use your own servers or whatever), loads all the informations inside the JSON (such as screenshots, extension of the package, architecture, description, languages etc), checks if it's compatible, and then you can install apps with one click. If it's a portable app, it extracts them and copies the necessary files to the program files folder, and adds a shortcut to your start menu or desktop; to uninstall it, you can do it too from Ecureuil. If it's a setup instead, it simply executes the setup file inside. And how do developers load apps on it? It's very easy: you just need a repository with the same structure to the example source ( Example source ), and that's it. It's all decentralized, and if you want to be featured directly on the client, you can do a pull request to Discovery Sources : with this, users can go on the Discovery Sources section in their client, and add sources they may not have discovered yet. Why did I do this? Because I have a Surface RT, and I've seen quite a few people asking online if there's x app, or if there's y app etc. Maybe you want a certain app, and you don't even know it exists because it's on a server you aren't part of. And I myself have delved a bit in searching apps for this: some are on different Discord servers, some are on Reddit, some are on some other websites, and you can't even download some of them directly on the RT. Ecureuil's goal is to fix this by providing a single, decentralized client where you can download your apps; and since it's in WinForms, by extension it works on x86 versions of Windows too. The more the people participate in, the better it'll be. Official website: Website , repository: Repository . Right now it's in beta, but all the main features should be working. If you have any issues, I'd be glad to fix them. I've also made a video to illustrate it, it's one of my very few videos I've ever done in my life, so pardon for the not-so-stellar quality 😅   submitted by   /u/fraaaaa4 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/24 21:39:22