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Re: [LUG] Chocolatey

 

On 30/07/13 20:48, Simon Avery wrote:
>> ** https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki
>>
>>
> That. Looks. Awesome!
>

Normally I characterise evaluating this sort of stuff as a chore -
testing, etc. In this case, my 15 minutes so far with chocolatey could
more accurately be called "playing" - it's so simple, and useful. MS
should be throwing money at these people.

It can list/add/remove windows internal features (WMISnmpProvider, ISS
components, etc), call cyg-get to automate cygwin component
installation, effectively do apt-get update and install countless third
party packages from Firefox to Ruby, or install from a private repo,
just like apt. I don't know what pure Windows techies would make of it
but if you're a Linux-type who just has to support Windows sometimes,
it's completely intuitive.

Looks like I'll be buying my .NET Linux-pessimist friend a couple of
beers for the heads up on this - best 3rd party windows tool ever!

Regards

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