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serialseb edited this page Sep 2, 2010
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OpenWrap is a package management system for .net.
- What’s a package manager?
A package manager is a tool that lets you find and use packages. OpenWrap is a package manager for .net that lets you find, install and use assemblies of common open-source projects, as well as a packaging format and a command-line API that you can use for your tools.
- What about dependencies?
Each package can describe list of dependencies it requires. When installing a wrap, you will automatically pull all the dependency tree necessary to run the code.
- How is that different from bricks / webgac / gems / CoApp / Insert favourite name here?
OpenWrap is a package management tool, and packages may contain many things that are not dlls you want to add to your project. That’s something that has been planned for by default in OpenWrap.
Furthermore, OpenWrap is built to help deliver OpenRasta, so it’s built on real requirements and has to be maintained for OpenRasta to continue existing.
As other solutions mature (or, in some cases, start publishing some code), we’ll have a better view of where we are and what features are different.
- Why build yet another one then?
Because it is needed for building OpenRasta, that other systems either don’t exist, were announced much later or didn’t fit my requirements.