[wpkg-users] Chocolatey?

[Jon Rhoades]

I think it's great that Chocolatey exits and with Microsoft's recent announcement, it's only going to get better, but it's not something we'd consider at this time: 


Most of our significant packages are site licensed and customised to our environment (eg Office/CS6/Endnote/SPSS...) negating any open repository benefit. 


We centrally manage all of our PCs (and indeed Mac's using WPKG's cousin Munki) - packages get installed on startup according to a generic or specific profile according to host name - this guarantees up to dateness & compliance. Chocolatey certainly didn't used to do this, I believe it's evolving and does at least now do administrative installs. 


A real alternative to WPKG for us would be Puppet or MS System Centre or Symantec Alteris, all of which have a similar feature set to WPKG - but the technical debt involved would make it a pretty expensive move! 


That said if there was something like Autopkg for Munki that allowed Chocolatey to update WPKG packages, then we'd be talking! 


Cheers Jon 


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Jon Rhoades 
Research Information Systems 
Eastern Hill Academic Centre 
(Incorporating The University of Melbourne Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Clinical School (St.Vincents), St Vincents Institute and OBrien Institute) 

www.stv.unimelb.edu.au 
www.svi.edu.au 



----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Schmidt" <schmidt at fgcz.ethz.ch> 
To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org 
Sent: Saturday, 1 November, 2014 4:44:51 AM 
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Chocolatey? 

>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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