Extras

I'm not sure what you mean with "just that", but eg the scoop package manager has visualc package: scoop bucket add extras scoop info visualc > (...) > The command-line compiler > functions of VS 2010 C++ scoop install visualc https://scoop.sh https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/blob/master/bucket/... Might be something via chocolaty/winget too?

Not disagreeing with you, but I think it's better to make it a little bit more clear what exactly was copied. Reading the article mentioned in the OP, the main selling point for appget seems to be that the packages are written in yaml: > Do you want to know how Microsoft WinGet works? go read the article (https://keivan.io/appget-what-chocolatey-wasnt/) But that alone doesn't particularly strike me as a completely novel approach on its own. Looking at package definitions for firefox across various package managers, you can notice that they all look somewhat similar to some degree. Though one could argue that appget and winget looks more similar than others, I'm not sure this is wholesale copying without digging into more details. But again, I'm not trying to argue that it's not, and I also agree the OP should've received more credit. appg

The amount of software available has been my only gripe for scoop vs chocolately - but I find scoop superior in every other way. But someone else here mentioned scoop-extras[0], which I hadn't heard of before, and contains over 1,000 apps (including Chrome, Firefox, notepad++, Irfanview, Skype, Sysinternals). [0] https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras

scoop and scoop extras (https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras) covers pretty much everything I use on Windows. I didn't realize the other repos existed for a while, but once I did, I got rid of choco entirely.

I realise I can find packages by scouring the GitHub repos[0][1], but I'd also appreciate a web search UI, especially as the number of available packages grows. This could also let me easily discover what version(s) are available etc. I can't seen to find it, but does such a UI already exist? [0] https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/tree/master/bucket [1] https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/tree/master/buck...

I really like that the manifest files are just single JSON files. Chocolatey packages are pretty complex [1], and even worse is the automatic system [2] used for building the main packages [3], which tries to keep everything updated. There's a very steep learning curve if you want to contribute and fix packages. Contrast to the simple manifests in the scoop main bucket [4] and it's looking much easier. There's some variables there for auto-updating that aren't immediately intuitive, but it doesn't look nearly as complex as chocolatey. Between the extras [5] and other community buckets [6] this is looking pretty compelling -- can't believe I've never heard of it before. [1] https://chocolatey.org/docs/create-packages [2] https://chocolatey.org/docs/automatic-packages [3] https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-coreteampackages/tr... [4] h

Pleasantly surprised to see they provide msi-based installers for Windows, and not exe-based ones like all too many projects still do. I'd think companies that provide software like this would have an interest in a) making the free version (and maybe the trial version) available in the windows store? And b) (ok, I'm somewhat biased, I just think it's soo delightful to use) a scoop.sh-package for easy install to those few that have discovered the joy that is scoop.sh. Shouldn't be too hard, could probably model on the scoop.sh package for visual studio: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/blob/master/visu... (which should probably be updated to vs2015)).

The 'extras' bucket for Scoop is a good fit things that aren't open source command-line tools, but are still useful dev tools. Teamcity should fit well there: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras

You're going to have to set-execution policy yourself—I highly recommend it though for a useable shell ;) So far there are 59 apps in the main bucket: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/tree/master/bucket There are 17 more apps in the 'extras' bucket: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/tree/master To use the extras bucket, you just need to run 'scoop bucket add extras'. Any requests for more dev tools? Feel free to add an issue or pull request on GitHub.