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Chocolatey official public feed now has 1,000 stable packages

Chocolatey has reached a milestone at 1K unique stable packages! When I started chocolatey a little over two years ago I didn't know there would be such a tremendous community uptake. I am blessed that you have found value in chocolatey and have contributed code, packages, bugs and ideas to making chocolatey better. To celebrate this we should look at who contributed the package that put us over the top. It was Justin Dearing with SqlKerberosConfigMgr (http://chocolatey.org/pack... ......
Posted On Saturday, June 1, 2013 11:10 AM | Comments (0)

Chocolatey Automatic Packages

I updated three packages this morning. I didn’t even notice until the tweets came in from @chocolateynuget. How is this possible? It’s simple. I love automation. I built chocolatey to take advantage of automation. So it would make sense that we could automate checking for package updates and publishing those updated packages. These are known as automatic packages. Automatic packages are what set Chocolatey apart from other package managers and I daresay could make chocolatey one of the most up-to-date ......
Posted On Thursday, January 3, 2013 1:15 AM | Comments (0)

Chocolatey featured on LifeHacker!

Chocolatey was just featured on LifeHacker! http://lifehacker.com/59424... I was ecstatic to hear about this, of course now I need to write an actual comparison between chocolatey and other windows package managers. Comments on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/com... ......
Posted On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:30 AM | Comments (0)

Chocolatey - Guidance on Packaging Apps with Both an Install and Executable/Zip Option

One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool name, that's both intuitive and expected. What I am more interested in is when an application has multiple installation options (ie. an MSI and a ZIP). It can become confusing for people to install these when they don't know what they are getting if they call a package that has both. If you start with one ......
Posted On Saturday, February 25, 2012 12:01 PM | Comments (0)