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Original author(s) | Icy 1: RiPDev (Slava Karpenko, Cyril Murzin) |
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Written in | Objective-C |
Operating system | iOS |
Successor | Installer 5 |
Type | Package management system |
License | Originally proprietary; later released under MIT License |
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Icy was an APT package manager originally developed by RiPDev for iPhone OS 2.0 - 3.1.3. It was intended as a faster, more lightweight alternative to Cydia.
It was unsuccessful due to a non-standard implementation of APT, requiring extra work for repository owners to fully support it.[further explanation needed] These issues were criticised by saurik after its release.[citation needed]
On 24 October 2009
, RiPDev was closed, and development of Icy ceased. Source code was released on the same day.The project was continued by two teams: WeAmDev, and Infini-Dev.
WeAmDev released version 2.0.1 with support for iOS 4 (including multitasking support), and later, 2.1.[when?] The final version released by WeAmDev is 2.3 beta, supporting iOS 7.
In November 2010sosumeh. In February 2011 , the project was folded into the WeAmDev team.
, the package manager project Euphoria was forked from the original RiPDev Icy source code byThe project was also continued by Infini-Dev.[when?] It was ultimately discontinued in early 2014, replacing it with Installer X for iOS 5 and 6, and Installer 5 for modern versions.[1]
External Links
Icy (application) |
- RiPDev:
- WeAmDev:
- gmoran.me/repo repository
- Source code