The Workbench 3.1 natural successor?

[stefcep2]

that reminds me of something thats been in my head for the past week: Why isn't there an amiga package manager? Its far from impossible. just think:


>aminet-install netsurf

checking system... OS IS WORKBENCH, 3.1, M68060, AGA
checking libs... BLAH BLAH MISSING
downloading libs ... DONE
downloading netsurf ... DONE

Netsurf can now be found on your Work: partition, or another if specified at install time.

I'd rather that than spend three days solid googling weird files not even the developers can be arsed to list under system requirements.

just download a pre-installed workbench envirinment like classicamiga, amigasys or amikit.

back in the day i'd spend ages tweaking everything to squeeze that last drop of speed and functionality, which would often result in conflicts, now I can't be bothered.  download and install, yay!

[stefcep2]

That's not really any kind of solution at all.

"hey can you help me fit an alarm to my '63 Zodiac?"

"Just buy a brand new car from any fine ford dealer!"

WTF?

You're not getting a new computer, you're getting all the updates you need to to improve the functionality and perfromance of your machine without having to go out and hunt them down, configure them, work out the conflicts, all you need is a Workbench 3.1 disc or ADF.  How easy is that?

[stefcep2]

@Hell Labs

Amigasys 4 has an autoupdate feature which is similar in principle to Windows Update. Maybe a full blown package manager could be something for inclusion in the next version  of AmigaSys?

Weed

Amikit too.

[stefcep2]

Terrible? There's more work there doing stuff like disabling eyecandy bollocks and tweking it so it'll actually run at a usable speed on real hardware, than there is to work your way up from standard 3.1.

The exception to that is Cwb because that was made by someone you could describe as "sane".

Which environment are you talking about?

Amikit, yep you really need an '060 to make this shine.  And it doesn't look or feel like an Amiga.  But under WinUae its great and looks better than any Linux theme I've seen.

Amigsys and ClassicWB have versions optimised for whatever hardware you have.  I have a 2 meg version of classicwb and it flies on an A1200, and has most of the essentials covered.  

AIAB is great too on low end hardware

Really an '030 and some fast ram with classic wb will give you all the functionality of AmigaOS 3.5+, with all the patches that would take you a lot of time to get done yourself, and its faster.