[sequoia]

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?

[j_s]

Yes, Chocolatey has a lot of volunteer-maintained packages that have gone stale; official Microsoft support will pressure software developers to publish up-to-date packages.

This is good news for Chocolately, which should be able to support these packages even on older versions of Windows.