[howdydoo]

The name "testing" kind of turns me off tbh. I want my OS to boot reliably. I don't want to be a test subject.

> How does scoop solve the problem?

It skips intermediate packaging steps and goes directly to the source. e.g. if the author publishes on GitHub, Scoop will request `github.com/ripgrep/releases/latest` (or whatever) and then download `ripgrep-$version.exe`. It has very primitive dependency handling, but I don't think that matters because I mostly install Go/Rust tools which are statically linked.

I honenstly think it's a genius solution. There's no wait time for updates, and you don't have to trust whatever user created the package on every version update.

[kortilla]

How is that genius? It basically ignores compatibility and stability as concepts entirely. Most people don’t want breaking changes to happen at arbitrary updates.