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Windows support! That's a surprise. Chocolatey is... ok. It works, mostly, but it's a common occurrence for upgrades to fail because the package maintainer for
by nxrabl 8y ago
Windows support! That's a surprise.
Chocolatey is... ok. It works, mostly, but it's a common occurrence for upgrades to fail because the package maintainer forgot to update the hash, or the program's built-in autoupdater already ran and moved things around, or a phantom .install dependency is missing, or some other inscrutable problem. Competition will be good for it (and the developer sells a premium version, so I do expect proper competition). All the other package management tools on windows have fairly tiny repositories and are, as far as I can tell, optimized for the workflow of sysadmins building images.
I wonder if Brew has any plans to support that package management framework Microsoft is apparently still working on? (https://github.com/OneGet/oneget https://github.com/OneGet/oneget)
- karenpls 8y agoDid you take a look at scoop.sh? I find it very useful commpared to chocolatey. It only installs portable versions, requires no admin and has everything my dev heart needs. Even installing stuff like miniconda and fluttr is a blaze.
- skrebbel 8y agoSeconded. Scoop.sh is spectacularly simple and to the point for all the areas where chocolatey feels needlessly complex.
- skrebbel 8y agoIt's not windows support, it's WSL support.
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