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Getting off topic fast, but I always found Chocolatey to be needlessly complicated and messy. I was very happy when I found http://scoop.sh http://scoop.sh. It
by skrebbel 9y ago
Getting off topic fast, but I always found Chocolatey to be needlessly complicated and messy.
I was very happy when I found http://scoop.sh http://scoop.sh. It's simpler and slightly less powerful, and most notably it just runs official installers in the background instead of copying binaries over from the source and packing them up in a special way.
(It's also at the latest got already)
- ericfrederich 9y agoThanks for getting off-topic. These seem useful... until WSL becomes more mainstream. Part of my workflow involves using ncat.exe to use git over a socks/ssh proxy. A real pain. I noticed scoop has nc but not ncat.
- skrebbel 9y agoI find `bash -c blablabla` works great for invoking the occasional Linux commands without moving to WSL entirely. (Actually I used to run all devtools, eg git and webpack I etc etc on WSL entirely but it still has too many quirks. Moved back to plain Windows recently and I'm happier)
- pjmlp 9y agoBeing on MS-DOS since 3.3, and being introduced to UNIX via Xenix, I have found out through the years that the best way is just to use the native CLI of each platform. For stuff that needs to run everywhere and I don't feel like writing two versions of scripts, I just use Python.
- jpfed 9y ago>Getting off topic fast, but I always found Chocolatey to be needlessly complicated and messy. I haven't released it yet, but Napkin solves this very issue.