[wpkg-users] Chocolatey?

[Marco Schmidt]

At least my small list started a small discussion.

After I read the article from Heise (c't 7/2014 p.176) I can give you 
some additional technical infos/differences to WPKG. Maybe I will be 
wrong at some points, please feel free to correct me and add your 
knowledge.

I will number the differences for better reference in the responses (not 
for ranking!!).
I will try to list them without putting a positive or negative 
classification on them, because this depends on your special 
environment/needs.

1. Chocolatey has a central external repository which is maintained by a 
community - WPKG has a individual repository which needs to be filled by 
each admin manually (some script example are in the wiki).

2. Chocolatey is made for "manual" install - WPKG has a service running 
on startup for automatically install/update packages.

3. WPKG has a central configuration which packages should be installed 
on which host - Chocolatey need to be embedded in additional tools to 
achieve this (Chef,Puppet, WPKG).

Greetings ...
  Marco

On 31.10.2014 18:44, Marco Schmidt wrote:
>  From my point of view:
>
> 1. Chocolatery is under active development/support
> 2. Chocolatery has a huge community
> 3. Chocolatery uses "modern" powershell
>
> I am sorry to say, but I guess, the days of WPKG are counted.
>
> Greetings ...
>   Marco
>
>
> On 31.10.2014 13:44, Jon Goldberg wrote:
>> We've been using wpkg here for several years; a new hire said that they
>> previously used Chocolatey to perform similar functions.
>>
>> Has anyone evaluated wpkg vs. Chocolatey and come to any conclusions?
>> Is anyone using them together?
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
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