AVavinassh·Feb 3, 2015
On GitHub - https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey
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[DEPRECATED - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco] Chocolatey NuGet - Like apt-get, but for windows.
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[DEPRECATED - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco] Chocolatey NuGet - Like apt-get, but for windows.
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| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 sourcesFear not! Chocolatey[0] is open source.
[0] - https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey
In Painless Windows Workstation Setup with BoxstarterJust read the Chocolatey vs Ninite comparison [1]. For me, the biggest selling point of Chocolatey is its decentralized nature, making it useful for enterprisey deployment.
[1] https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/ChocolateyVsNi...
In Kinda like apt-get, but for WindowsThe problem that I have with chocolatey is: It's all about the installs. You'd hope that the people doing it would know how installs work.
But the default place where chocolatey installs is "C:\chocolatey", and "C:\" is where people who don't understand windows file system layout put things.
The docs ( https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/DefaultChocola... ) make a plausible case that this option might be justified sometimes. Saying "we'll always put it somewhere nonstandard because some people might sometimes want to install it when they don't have permissions to put programs where they belong" is unconvincing.
The other argument put forward "It's not installed through the registry" (so?) and "it's a Special core component tool" (it's not special to anyone who hasn't installed it yet) are equally weak.
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der should arguably be allowed. But it's a rubbish default, a poor first impression and undermines confidence that they know what they're doing. It is inexcusable that "C:\Chocolatey" is default and "C:\Program Files\Chocolatey" is a set-up that one does manually.
A comment yesterday [1] led me to Chocolatey NuGet [2], a package manager for Windows built on PowerShell. The gallery [3] has almost everything I need to set up a dev environment.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4763895
[2] https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki
[3] http://chocolatey.org/packages
In The amount of crap Windows users have to put up with is incredibleThat 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
In Chocolatey - Windows Package Manager