pam

Portable application manager (windows, for now)

End Game: remove the need for installers in windows. allow portable application developers a marketplace.

Installation

• download the release
• unzip to a folder that doesnot need admin access to write - eg: c:\me\pam Important: this will be PAM_HOME, choose carefully

First run

Run the following in command line

cd c:\me\pam
pam

• the folder that pam is running in (c:\me\pam) is set as %PAM_HOME% folder
• %PAM_PATH% = %PAM_HOME% env var is created, appended to %PATH%
• .pamrc.json: registry is set to %PAM_HOME%.reg (unzipped folder contains this), can be changed
• .pamrc.json: download cache is set to %PAM_HOME%.cache (unzipped folder contains this), can be changed

Installing packages

Run the following in command line

pam install <package>
<or>
pam install gh:<package>

Where is

• a valid .reg/.pam.json
• TODO github.com/.pam.json eg: = sarath/pam-reg/go

removing packages

TODO

registry format

TODO

Uninstallation

Removing pam is easy

• delete PAM_HOME folder
• delete %PAM_HOME% env variable
• delete %PAM_PATH% env variable