WarpIN

Install manager and associated utilities with limited package management functionality. WarpIN has taken over as the standard installer on OS/2 from the rather crude tools supplied form IBM and is the standard installer shipped with the eComStation distribution. The WarpIN archives are packed with the gzip compatible libbzip compression library and can be de-compressed using Bzip if you do not have access to WarpIN itself

Features:

1. It can maintain a global database of installed packages and therefore can de-install everything that has ever been installed without leaving any trace.
2. The global database can maintain package dependencies so that WarpIN will tell you if a package cannot be safely installed without installing another package first. Reversely, it will warn you if you attempt to de-install a package that is still required by other packages.
3. You don't have to download the same installer with every package, which should reduce package sizes.

In addition, WarpIN can automatically do all system configuration (update CONFIG.SYS, register WPS classes, and create WPS objects). Even better, when a package is de-installed, it can undo all these changes again without a trace. All this happens without the user having to bother with the details.

Version

• Latest Version for OS/2-eCS: WarpIn 1.0.21 (2015-11-02)

Links

• XWorkplace.org: [1]
• Netlabs.org: [2]

License

Open Source - GNU GPL: "This thing is available to any programmer, commercial, shareware, freeware or GPL, for free use, even though WarpIN itself is released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). Since the GPL does not restrict usage, and "usage" with WarpIN is creating and installing archives, you can use it to distribute anything you like."

Authors & publisher

• Netlabs
• Jens Bäckman (Original developer)
• Ulrich Möller (Original developer)
• Yuri Dario
• Paul Ratcliffe (Current maintainer)