This is actually pretty awesome. I liked package managers (using linux and Windows on dualboot), one of the best tools for Windows is Cygwin (using Linux commands in Windows).. Where i can automate a lot of (manual) work.
It seems to me that Microsoft is going all-in on open-source and flexibility.
If you are using Asp.Net, you should check out Owin and project Helios - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/02/18/introducin...
As a long time on-and-off chocolatey user: YAY!!!
I prefer *nix but at work I need to use Windows sometimes, Chocolatey is a HUGE step in the right direction. It boggled my mind that MSFT wasn't throwing money behind the project- it does loads to make Windows friendlier to developers who prefer CLI.
I hope they commit a person/team to evaluating/maintaining/cleaning up packages in the Chocolatey repo.
One question I have tho is why they don't just adopt Chocolatey/cinst (chocolatey install) directly? What's the purpose of get-command (besides ownership which is obviously important). Why not just fork/rebrand chocolatey? Or is that what's happening?
I wonder how this compares to PsGet (http://psget.net) - or is it simply a cmd-line wrapper around Chocolatey?
If you like your FOSS I can recommend MSYS2.
http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2
(disclaimer: I work on MSYS2)
for example Install Sysinternals from PowerShell via OneGet http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2014/04/install-sysinternals-from...
Am I reading correctly that this is a 2012R2-specific feature? Thanks, but what am I supposed to do for the rest of my Windows infrastructure?
This is cool. I'm a *nix guy but this actually compels me to learn PowerShell for those rare occasions when I'm working on a Windows machine.
I have been using Chocolatey for a while now without any regret. OneGet probably won't match apt-get at first but this step is definitively in the right direction. If all software providers would provide their repository information updating programs would finally be a one-klick (or one command)-operation.
I'd love it if they added console tabs and text reflow / resizing to powershell
I use PS all the time - and it's killing me that I need 4+ windows open to account for all the different projects I've got to work on at the same time.
While I myself wold newer use windows for anything unless there was no other way, I hope that the stuff that Microsoft is doing might influence some windows people to start doing stuff the "right" way.
can i distribute sources or do I have to compile them first? can somebody download compile my sources without having to download visual studio?
I realise its a Microsoft article. But they really couldn't have a fallback monospace font?
Almost a meta comment, but Microsoft seems to be knocking their BUILD conference out of the park this year. I think we've already seen more notable announcements and improvements than we'll see at WWDC.
Just the fact that there was a talk about developing iOS apps by the founder of Xamarin is telling. The fact that he was wearing Google Glass is another...