[ansible-project] Re: Why is package management so convoluted with Ansible and Windows?

2016-07-19 Thread 'J Hawkesworth' via Ansible Project
I have a few ideas about why package management is a pain on windows. The first is that there is an assumption baked into a lot of aspects of windows that there is someone sitting in front of the screen. If you like windows is a 'workstation operating system'. The computer is right there in f

[ansible-project] Re: Why is package management so convoluted with Ansible and Windows?

2016-07-18 Thread Mike Fennemore
With regards to package management the win_msi module seems to have been built purely for msi files whereas win_package is built with the option of other install files (exe etc). Also the win_msi module is a core module whereas the win_package is an extras module developed by the community. As a