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I wrote a little bit more about Chocolatey packaging, there is quite a bit of confusion about it because most folks only see the packages on the community feed ( https://chocolatey…

Actually it depends on the package type. Chocolatey doesn't require an admin shell nor does it require PowerShell for packages that have the runtime executables embedded in the pac…

Only a download script for GUI apps? That's interesting and very likely misinformed. Since Chocolatey builds on top of NuGet.Core, it's got all of the same benefits to dependency r…

"Chocolatey is that they depended on a bad upstream tool" Hindsight is amazingly much clearer than decisions you make at the time with all the constraints and requirements you have…

Well "them" == me and my team. It's likely building on top of NuGet was a mistake on my part, but it's all there was at the time and it was pretty easy to get started. We don't nee…

A lot has changed in a year. For instance you were likely using Chocolatey prior to when the rewritten compiled version came out.

It looks like all of my comments on your post were private notes. Edit: I readded the ones I could make public. You wrote that the Chocolatey Gallery had no formal review process, …

"Think carefully before using Chocolatey. It is not, never has been, and never will be the default package system for Windows." Mostly because it wasn't created by Microsoft. I mea…

"Chocolatey is based on v2 NuGet which is a) terrible and" I laughed at that point because I completely agree that NuGet v2 isn't great at all. Also you forgot to mention that NuGe…

You are correct about the distribution licensing, however that really only applies to the packages on the community feed. When Chocolatey is used internally, I think you will see i…

OneGet the package manager aggregator that has a Chocolatey provider. That's why it's crucial to support Chocolatey!

Thank you!

10 days to go! Over half way there. Let's do this!

Agreed. But most of the pro version features are non-free features for us to offer.

And the linear top/down flow, also known as manifest ordering, is now available with Puppet. See http://puppetlabs.com/blog/introducing-manifest-ordered-reso...

I think CoApp is going to be the answer for what you are trying to do. Chocolatey starts after compilation. If someone is already providing libcurl and openssl, these are easily of…

It could be a chocolatey package. ;)

And the uninstall command? :D

That 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 pack…

cinst curl - it's there. For the others, just because they are not there yet, doesn't mean they won't be. Creating packages is pretty simple. This is the main part of the curl pack…

Would providing the full link be a better idea? For the installer experience, people wanted short and memorable.

We started with a much more involved set of steps to install and people kept wanting a one liner for the install. It's a tradeoff