YAML notepad for enterprise apps
This project stores human-friendly JSON manifests describing the way enterprise desktop apps are typically installed, silently, and uninstalled. It is not authoritative, and it is not vendor-supported. It is a community knowledge base. There are CI/CD not this, there are tools, and scripts and all that. This looks at it all and says, we aren't at that point yet.
Some software is packaged the same way across many years, many orgs, and many versions—yet every packaging engineer has to rediscover:
- silent switches
- deployment flags
- detection rules
- uninstall methods
- known caveats
- missing GUIDs
- weird requirements
- confirmed = explicitly observed from actual install media
- inferred = pattern-based guess from similar versions
- unknown = left blank on purpose
- placeholder = strings like UNKNOWN_*
- false likely needs validation
- true someone tested & confirmed
- null TBD When filling blanks
- honesty
- placeholders
- comments
- this is not winget-pkg, it's not an official repo, this hopefully will create a centralized git for instructables on enterprise application packaging, even if it means adding a note that says don't install this on Mondays with an even number date. If i'ts a ghost failing app like java manifests for stuff, throw a note in some other engineer can actually make sense of that.
“I think it works with all Windows versions but I’m not sure”
Do NOT invent GUIDs or claim accuracy you don’t have.