User:Brecken Lusk

Saily Package Manager
Saily is a beautiful and modern package manager in the form of a mobile app for iOS 11 and iOS 12. It enables a user to find and install software not authorized by Apple on jailbroken iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. Many of the software packages available through Saily are free of charge, although some require purchasing. Saily is developed by Lakr Aream and Brecken Lusk, also refereed to as the Saily Team. The name "Saily" is a reference to the current state of the jailbreak community. Many users are trying new alternatives to Cydia after it has been officially abandoned by its developer, Jay Freeman. Another well-known developer in the jailbreak community, "CoolStar," has developed a modern alternative to Cydia, although many users are unhappy with his package manager, which can be very restrictive. Users are sailing on and are still looking for new alternatives.

Purpose and Function
Saily provides jailbroken users with a modern graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to add Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) repositories to install software unavailable on the App Store. Saily is based on APT, which was ported to iOS as part of Jay Freeman's Telesphoreo project.

Packages are downloaded directly to the iOS device. Apps are installed in the same location as Apple's own applications, the  directory. Jailbroken devices can also still buy and download apps normally from the official App Store. At the moment, Saily is not packaged with any iOS jailbreak tools, which means it is not installed automatically upon jailbreaking your device. To install it, users have to download it from another default package manager such as Cydia or Sileo.

Software Available Through Saily
Most packages available through Saily are extensions and modifications for the iOS interface, also known as "Tweaks." These modifications are based on one of two frameworks based on which jailbreak tool you are using: Cydia Substrate or Substitute, which makes it relatively easy to install and update said modifications. Users can also download custom interfaces and icons for applications, which are known as "Themes." Saily also offers some regular applications that Apple will not allow on the App Store. Some of these apps are emulators, which enable users to run images of games from old game consoles right on their devices, without those consoles' responsive controllers. UNIX command line tools are available through Saily as well, including bash, coreutils and OpenSSH, meaning the device could potentially be used as a full-fledged UNIX workstation, although without many development tools.

History
Lakr Aream and Brecken Lusk first released the Saily Internal Beta in May of 2019 as an open-source alternative to Sileo. In June of 2019, a new update was pushed to internal beta testers claiming to have fixed a bug where the Saily Startup Daemon would launch before dpkg, causing errors and preventing users from downloading packages. Later that month, the Saily Team announced, via Twitter, that they are no longer inviting people to beta test Saily internally. This was partly due to their inability to patch the bug in the update that they claimed they would. They are actively working to find a fix before the public beta is released.

Category:Unix package management-related software Category:dpkg Category:Homebrew Software Category:iOS Jailbreaking Category:Mobile software distribution platforms Category:Free application software