Windows Installer Package Tool

The Windows Installer Package Tool, or Wipt, is a package management system inspired by the Advanced Package Tool that forms the basis of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.

The wipt-get tool allows the easy installation of Windows Installer packages and patches and allows for the application of customization transforms during the install process.

A system administrator or archive maintainer can create a repository file and add packages for different products and multiple versions of the same product using the wipt-put? tool.

Unlike APT, Wipt does not require a repository with a directory structure. A repository file merely contains URLs for packages, patches, and transforms accessible via HTTP, FTP or the local filesystem.

Through configuration? of Wipt, multiple repository files can be cascaded to make many packages and transforms from different sources available to clients.

Downloads

Binary Releases

1.0 final

HTTP

Source

You can browse the source and download a zip package in the Browser. You can also check out the latest version of the source using Subversion at URL:

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/svn/sigwin/wipt/trunk

Note that these sources include only the public keys for the assemblies, and are set to build delay-signed executables. There are two targets skipregister and skipunregister which will add and remove the assemblies from the verification skip list.

Also, the wipt.msi target will refuse to build if the executables are delay-signed. If you wish to distribute custom binaries, you should replace the keys in the repository with your own, and then build fully-signed binaries.