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This looks like a close competitor to CoApp (http://coapp.org/ http://coapp.org/) - both are FOSS package managers for Windows, although it appears Chocolatey p
by hyperrail 15y ago
This looks like a close competitor to CoApp (http://coapp.org/ http://coapp.org/) - both are FOSS package managers for Windows, although it appears Chocolatey places less emphasis on libraries and other developer-focused packages. That is, CoApp is emphasizing shipping both source and binary packages, and provides more help to package maintainers still trying to make their programs build on Windows.
Chocolatey will probably get more users early on though, because of its association with the ever-popular NuGet (watch for the Scott Hanselman blog post...).
- mahcuz 15y agoCoApp is also backed by Microsoft, IIRC.
- ferventcoder 15y agoThat and creating packages with chocolatey is stupid simple compared to what I've seen with CoApp. But CoApp also has source and WinSxS. You can see how easy it is to create a package here: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/CreatePackages https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/CreatePackages