chocolatey/choco
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Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2015-05-29 · latest 2021-04-17
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…but being a open source project it's anyone's guess when improved NuGet support will be available. https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues/508 The big win with WinGet is mostly that it is a proper supported solution backed by Microsoft.…
comment by sharken · 2021-04-17 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back -
> chocolatey, who came up with that name The chocolatey repo ( https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/History ) explains the name as a pun based on the previous package manager NuGet: "Chocolatey started out as a joke because everyone…
comment by EForEndeavour · 2019-01-07 · in I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets -
…https://ninite.com/help/notfeatures/more.html But alternatives aren’t: Chocolatey - Apache license - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco Homebrew (for Mac) - BSD license - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew Scoop (as previously mentioned) -…
comment by lstamour · 2017-11-27 · in Telerik gets Fiddler unlisted from Chocolatey -
Apparently, Powershell requires a BOM to recognize UTF-8 scripts. https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CreatePackages#char...
comment by slavik81 · 2016-06-19 · in UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) -
…feed ( https://chocolatey.org/packags ) and think that is the only way that Chocolatey works. https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/GettingStarted#what...
comment by ferventcoder · 2016-03-16 · in Chocolatey – package manager for Windows -
…it was rewritten last year - in addition to a download script, here are things it does currently - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/GettingStarted#how-...
comment by ferventcoder · 2016-03-15 · in Chocolatey – package manager for Windows -
…to the next isn't really a choice, it's a must. We'll need to do it in a backwards compatible way. https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues/508
comment by ferventcoder · 2016-03-15 · in Chocolatey – package manager for Windows -
…work on automatic uninstall so that there's less work required by packages to support uninstall: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CommandsUninstall
comment by jongalloway2 · 2015-05-29 · in Goodbye, Sourceforge