There’s something comforting about Windows CLI applications, I think. Maybe it’s the idea that I can, after all, just open a shell and actually do something. Of course Windows XP’s built in shell sucks in every conceivable way; maybe it’s the years of living in denial, acting as if the command line isn’t a nice thing to have around.

It is. Appupdater (thanks a lot for the long name: there’s a reason ls and man and rm are short, thank you very much) is sort of like apt-get for Windows, though not nearly as graceful or integrated into the system. But it’s useful still! If someone could actually get an integrated repository working on Windows that auto-updated, that’d be ever so nice. There’s nothing worse than every program having its own installer and update mechanism.

Tags: appupdater, software, windows