the ideas and theories which drive apt development and notes on the development environment

Overall Goals

• simple command line installation, upgrade and removal of packages
• always compatible with osgeo4w-setup.exe. People should never feel like they have to choose one over the other.

Development Environment

For better or worse, this is what I use to work on pkg-apt.

IDE: I'm using this project to learn how to use the ​Leo Outline Editor. Bring apt.py into a @file node (drag and drop should do nicely) and you should see the functions split out into a tree that's somewhat easier to understand than a big long file. To use Leo with o4w's python apt install python-win32 pyqt4 sip.

PYTHON: I'm now working towards using solely 2.7 from the testing repository (as soon as I get the problem with x64 python registering properly licked, #114). As yet I don't think apt itself requires anything newer than 2.5.