I was looking over some of the statistics and dates. They are continuing to move higher.
March 26 2005 - autopackage 1.0 released
July 23, 2005 - download counter started
July 28, 2005 - autopackage 1.0.5 released
March 29, 2006 - recorded 70000 support code downloads[*]
So in for the last 8 months, we around averaging 9000. Not bad […]
I was able to sit down and look through the dependency retrieval code of autopackage’s support code. The short story is that I put together some logic to use an application’s luau xml repository file to search and install a .package . The long story is that there were logic issues with the existing code […]
Currently autopackage uses a (modified) version of luau to download repository xml files, compare software entries, and download .packages to satisfy a requirement. All of these actions are for dependencies and not for applications. An oft requested feature is a way to search for an (unknown) application or update/upgrade an application.
The searching for a package […]