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Scoop - https://scoop.sh https://scoop.sh It's basically apt/brew on Windows, but it's particularly awesome because it does not manage dependencies. It just do

Scoop - https://scoop.sh https://scoop.sh It's basically apt/brew on Windows, but it's particularly awesome because it does not manage dependencies. It just downloads and extracts installers, which works because every self-respecting program that works on Windows distributes binaries as an installer (or just a zip) somewhere. Result: everything just works, every program is self-contained, no admin rights needed, no package maintainers needed either.

superasn 8y ago
So far I've been using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org https://chocolatey.org) for doing this (and ninite though that's not command line). But this looks pretty cool too. Thanks for sharing!
- PhilippGille 8y ago
  I created a small CLI tool that I package for Homebrew, Snap, Docker, Chocolatey and Scoop, and I prefer the packaging experience for Scoop, which is the most easy and straightforward one. Compare the respective directories in https://github.com/philippgille/serve https://github.com/philippgille/serve.
  - skrebbel 8y ago
    Nice tool btw! I wish I'd known about it 5 days ago, when I taught a class that involved a little bit of web development. I used devd, but getting it in the PATH was a non trivial task for some of the trainees who used Windows. Serve has an installer, which presumably solves that even without scoop or chocolatey.
- skrebbel 8y ago
  Yeah I used chocolatey for a while too, but I found it needlessly overengineered, and often the abstraction was leaky. Scoop is dumber, in a good way.
JustFinishedBSG 8y ago
> no admin rights needed, > Make sure Powershell 3 (or later) and .NET Framework 4.5 (or later) are installed. Yeah not exactly. Wouldn't work in most ( all ? ) the places I worked at.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  Really? PS 3.0 was integrated as of Win 8 / Server 2012. In 7 and 2008/2008R2 it was in service pack 1.
  - y4mi 8y ago
    Yes it is installed. But script execution is pretty much always disabled through group policy
    - russdpale 8y ago
      Not to mention if you work at a university that does any research, you more than likely support computers still running Windows 98, or even older! It is shocking how much equipment gets drivers and then never gets updated and no one has the time or money to update them..

superasn 8y ago

So far I've been using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org https://chocolatey.org) for doing this (and ninite though that's not command line). But this looks pretty cool too. Thanks for sharing!

PhilippGille 8y ago
I created a small CLI tool that I package for Homebrew, Snap, Docker, Chocolatey and Scoop, and I prefer the packaging experience for Scoop, which is the most easy and straightforward one. Compare the respective directories in https://github.com/philippgille/serve https://github.com/philippgille/serve.
- skrebbel 8y ago
  Nice tool btw! I wish I'd known about it 5 days ago, when I taught a class that involved a little bit of web development. I used devd, but getting it in the PATH was a non trivial task for some of the trainees who used Windows. Serve has an installer, which presumably solves that even without scoop or chocolatey.
skrebbel 8y ago
Yeah I used chocolatey for a while too, but I found it needlessly overengineered, and often the abstraction was leaky. Scoop is dumber, in a good way.

JustFinishedBSG 8y ago

> no admin rights needed, > Make sure Powershell 3 (or later) and .NET Framework 4.5 (or later) are installed. Yeah not exactly. Wouldn't work in most ( all ? ) the places I worked at.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
Really? PS 3.0 was integrated as of Win 8 / Server 2012. In 7 and 2008/2008R2 it was in service pack 1.
- y4mi 8y ago
  Yes it is installed. But script execution is pretty much always disabled through group policy
  - russdpale 8y ago
    Not to mention if you work at a university that does any research, you more than likely support computers still running Windows 98, or even older! It is shocking how much equipment gets drivers and then never gets updated and no one has the time or money to update them..