Hello,

I just created a package update function for ParaView (https://www.paraview.org/).
It was a bit of a struggle, so if it might be useful for other users...

The update is based on the 64-bit "non-MPI" version (see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/message-passing-interface/microsoft-mpi...).

Hello Denis,

I completely understand that a modification like this wouldn't be insignificant.
Couldn't it be "enabled" (this doesn't eliminate the "sensitive" aspect of such a modification)?

I'm already working with a "core application" meta-package which contains...

Hello,

yes, the title isn't clear, but I didn't know how to phrase it concisely.

I was wondering if it's possible to apply packages with a "from near to far" priority order without the far-flung configuration overwriting the nearby one?

Since it's still not clear...

Hi everyone,
here's a little bit of code to clean up for installing and updating the Zulip Desktop Client for Windows 64-bit.

Have a good day,
Vianney.


# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from setuphelpers import *

def install():
bin = "Zulip-%s-x64.msi" % control.get_software_version()
install_msi_if_needed ...

Hi everyone,
I noticed that the MikTeX package for Windows is still at version 22.10 even though version 24.1 is out.

I created this `update_package` which returns the latest version if you're interested, and then you can download it here


: `def update_package():
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ...`

Hello,
Following a user request, I created the DigiKam package (Win 10 64-bit). It's not very polished, but it's definitely worth improving.
I haven't found an easy way to check for updates, so I'm parsing the RSS feed to find the latest version and then...