In Mathematica, a Package is a Mathematica text file that contains definitions of commands other than the ones that are built into the Mathematica application itself. In fact, Mathematica comes with a ...

In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn’t that centralized. There was ...

Way back in 2004—when Mac Gems was in its infancy—I reviewed Pacifist 1.6, a nifty utility for working with Mac OS X installer packages (.pkg and .mpkg files). If you’ve ever wondered what an ...

Windows developers have long looked at Linux’s surfeit of package managers with envy. Having a simple command line tool like apt or rpm that would install an application and all its prerequisites ...