On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Dav Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Smart windows-hacker types... > > I have just recently gotten chocolatey_ to work (in classic Bay Area form: > Chocolatey is Homebrew_ for windows). Is this a reasonable recommendation > for a step up from the SWC installer? > I've been playing around with chocolatey a bit and I think it's really cool, but I think for many of our students asking them to install a command line package manager and then use it before the workshop is going to be expecting a lot. Most of the students in novice workshops have never used a CLI before. In an earlier version of the installer just having them run a Python file cause *a lot* of confusion. That said, I think that it might well be possible to rewrite the installer to use chocolatey, which might be quite a bit simpler than the current implementation. I'm not sure whether it's worth the work at this point since Windows installation has been running very smoothly for the past year or so. For an intermediate workshop it might be OK and the best way to find that out would be for someone to give it a try and report back.
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