au
Versions
au | Versions | |
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4 | 3 | |
220 | 175 | |
- | 3.4% | |
4.3 | 10.0 | |
over 1 year ago | 6 days ago | |
PowerShell | PowerShell | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | The Unlicense |
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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
Versions
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Omnisharp import completion doesn't work.
I use scoop, and needed to install this separately from the versions bucket here: (https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Versions/blob/master/bucket/omnisharp-net6.json).
- Stupid Fast Scoop Search v1.0
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WinGet is terrible. I want AppGet back
Scoop is maintained, but just... really slowly. It's a shame. For example it took more than a month and two maintainer pings to merge an absolutely trivial PR to add Python 3.8 (a single character change over the Python 3.7 manifest): https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Versions/pull/226
For the most part, this does not matter. Most of the existing stuff is already present in buckets and auto-updated by CI. The problem is just when something breaks or something new needs to be added, which can take a non-deterministic amount of time.
What are some alternatives?
oneget - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows
winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
ChocoButler - ChocoButler - an automatic updater for Chocolatey
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
wixsharp - Framework for building a complete MSI or WiX source code by using script files written with C# syntax.
Scoop-Core - Shovel. Alternative, more advanced, and user-friendly implementation of windows command-line installer scoop.
wix3 - WiX Toolset v3.x
OSD - OSD Shared Functions
Shovel-Ash258 - Personal Shovel bucket with a wide variety of applications of all kinds.
ts_block - Blocks IP addresses generating invalid Terminal Services logons
Main - 📦 The default bucket for Scoop.