Of course I don't want to code the program in python. But the plans are not to host the binaries ourself, but to let the developers of the apps do that job. But each developer stores his app in a different way. This is why we need some kind of install script.
I wouldn't want to see the complexities of install scripts and phyton brought upon the poor Windows users' souls. The developers should store their apps as self-extracting EXEs or installation EXEs...not a bunch of files that we have to code install scripts for. All our app would have to do is 1) parse an XML tree containing information (like name, size, etc, maybe even a rating) and the download link to the exe).
We thought that we could implement it as a dll. So that I could be there as well as in a stand-alone program.
Yes, Add/Remove Program's tabs either call upon a DLL or shellexecute an EXE.
Maarten Bosma alias Dr. Fred
Best regards, Alex Ionescu