chocolatey by any other name???

notverypunny

https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/19/microsoft-windows-package-manager-powertoys/

Not implying that ms is cribbing the choco code, but this could make for some interesting developments....

Dashrender

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scottalanmiller

It's open source, so easy to see. Also, appears to grab directly from GitHub, which is pretty cool.

jmoore

Thats exactly what it looks like.

1337

I think debian was first with dpkg (apt) package manager some 25+ years ago.

So winget instead of apt-get.

warren.stanley

Just had a quick look at whats available, I'm on an Insider build so winget is installed

PS C:\> (winget search).count
169

Apparently there's issues with dependency-resolution though.

Obsolesce

@warren-stanley said in chocolatey by any other name???:

Just had a quick look at whats available, I'm on an Insider build so winget is installed
PS C:\> (winget search).count
169
Apparently there's issues with dependency-resolution though.

Nothing MS comes out with is a viable production-usable solution for at least a couple years.