When WarpIN is initially installed on a user's system, it associates itself with WarpIN archives. The user can therefore simply double-click on an archive to have WarpIN install it.
WarpIN must be installed separately from the archives. It resides in a separate directory on the hard disk to be able to keep track of the packages which were installed already and to be able to find out whether neccessary preconditions are met for a package which is about to be installed, e.g. if a new packages requires another package to be present. Because of this, WarpIN can also remove (de-install) installed packages and do version checks for packages.
WarpIN only works on archives which have a special format. This allows for certain features which cannot be achieved using the presently existing archive types.
Each archive contains: