Community Scriptable Package Library?
Hi team,
My colleague and I were discussing how great PDQ is, but also one of it's downsides, which is the Package Library and not being large enough. We came from a Mac environment and used Munki along with AutoPkgr which does a similar thing as the package library, except all the apps in the library were submitted by the community. They were called recipe's and you would basically make a script that pulled the version of an application from it's website, along with the download link and other stuff.
These recipe's then got pulled into a global github repository and AutoPkgr would import the recipe's allowing people to easily download/install and keep applications auto updated.
Wondering if you have any plans to allow the PDQ community to help out with adding more apps to the Package Library? Maybe a Community Package tab which scripts the community made which give further access to apps? I understand there is a security risk here, but you could have someone at PDQ verify the scripts and ensure it's nothing dodgy.
thanks.
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Have you ever used choco install (kind of like yum or apt-get for Windows) ? It has over 6k community maintained packages.
https://chocolatey.org/
You can just use PDQ to call "choco install winscp".