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    Scoop - a command line installer for Windows windows scoop.sh
    jdarnold avatar via jdarnold 4 months ago | cached | 5 comments

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    miah avatar miah 4 months ago | link

    Neat. I wondered how this was different from Chocolatey, and found https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Comparison

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      wink avatar wink 4 months ago | link

      Thanks for that link, I’ve wondered that myself at times. I’m maintaining one chocolately package and I think I’ve already run into one of these but I’m also not sure if scoop’s solution is better. (User-installed JDK versus depending on it to be seperately installed)

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      calvin avatar calvin 3 months ago | link

      Eh, just another SETUP.EXE downloader; I can do that myself. What’d be useful is actual package management with proper dependency resolution and fetching on Windows. Unfortunately, it’s something I haven’t seen. (I think Windows Installer /has/ the backend bits; so something like an apt-msi is possible, but…)

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        singpolyma avatar singpolyma 3 months ago | link

        I built an apt clone that worked on Windows once, but we never got past proof of concept

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        GeoffWozniak avatar GeoffWozniak 4 months ago | link

        Make sure Powershell 3 is installed, then run: iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring(‘https://get.scoop.sh’)

        I assume this is the Windows equivalent of piping the output of curl to the shell. Boo.