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nuget is the closest to apt-get you can get on Windows. Chocolatey is only a download script for a bunch of GUI apps―very useful in its own right, but not a pac
by Derbasti 11y ago
nuget is the closest to apt-get you can get on Windows. Chocolatey is only a download script for a bunch of GUI apps―very useful in its own right, but not a package manager with dependency resolutíon etc.
- ferventcoder 11y agoOnly a download script for GUI apps? That's interesting and very likely misinformed. Since Chocolatey builds on top of NuGet.Core, it's got all of the same benefits to dependency resolution you get with NuGet. Plus it builds on top of that with quite a few things. You can call it a fancy download script if you want, but I think you are missing all of the things it does since it was rewritten last year - in addition to a download script, here are things it does currently - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/GettingStarted#how-does-chocolatey-work https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/GettingStarted#how-...