Shovel-Ash258
au
Shovel-Ash258 | au | |
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1 | 4 | |
230 | 220 | |
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9.9 | 4.3 | |
4 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
PowerShell | PowerShell | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Shovel-Ash258
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WinGet is terrible. I want AppGet back
Ash258 is not one of the official maintainers, but he's a very active member of the community (more active than the actual maintainers), commenting on most PRs to official buckets and maintaining his own bucket https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Ash258 as well as a Scoop fork https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Ash258 with many improvements and issue fixes over the upstream. He also mods the Scoop Discord server.
However, his comments are often harsh, like you noticed. He's mostly on-point, but is very quick to rudely shoot down anything he disagrees with. Also he bans discussing or even mentioning his fork of Scoop on the Discord server, which is super weird since he put it publicly on GitHub in the first place.
au
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So according to Repology, Nix has an insane lead on available packages, but somehow has around a tenth of AURs maintainers. How does Nix also manage to be the most up to date?
I created au framework for chocolatey (Windows OS) and on packages that are cross platform, it made choco above Arch on freshness: https://github.com/majkinetor/au
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Is there some centralized source to get the most recent version numbers of often used software?
Having said that, you may want to look into the source code for each package you're interested in. Many of them use the Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater Module, and had to solve this exact problem in some way to help automate updates. I've seen approaches varying from scraping a web page, querying an API, or even downloading the binary and looking at its FileVersionInfo struct.
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Novice to Package Managers, Interested in Chocolatey
There are a lot of packages out there where you can customise the install location. If you want to automatically fetch from suppliers and create your own packages then you probably want to look at the automatic package updater with AppVeyor: https://github.com/majkinetor/au/wiki
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WinGet is terrible. I want AppGet back
> I mean, it is a chocolatey, because they allow multiple packaged for the same software.
I think this is more healthy then having one with maintainers refusing to do stuff you may need. The real thing would be for vendors releasing packages but we are far from that in Windows land.
> I meant that packages are often not updated by the maintainers.
Yeah, that was the problem far more before then today. I created AU to solve that issue [1].
[1]: https://github.com/majkinetor/au
What are some alternatives?
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
oneget - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows
Scoop-Core - Shovel. Alternative, more advanced, and user-friendly implementation of windows command-line installer scoop.
Versions - 📦 A Scoop bucket for alternative versions of apps.
Main - 📦 The default bucket for Scoop.
ChocoButler - ChocoButler - an automatic updater for Chocolatey
wixsharp - Framework for building a complete MSI or WiX source code by using script files written with C# syntax.
wix3 - WiX Toolset v3.x
OSD - OSD Shared Functions