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Chocolatey vs. Hackage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chocolatey
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows designed to make complex tasks simple, from Chocolatey Software in Topeka. The vendor states Chocolatey can easily handle all aspects of package management, but it is also able to work well within the existing ecosystem that is Windows software management.N/A
Hackage
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Hackage is the Haskell Package Repository an the Haskell community's central package archive of open source software. Hackage has been online since January 2007 and is where users can publish libraries and programs or download and install packages with tools like cabal-install (or via a distro's package manager).N/A
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ChocolateyHackage
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ChocolateyHackage
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
ChocolateyHackage
Considered Both Products
Chocolatey
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Anonymous
Chose Chocolatey
On OSX machines we use brew which works if compared to Chocolatey, a lot better. You could see that on Windows machines the idea of a command line-based software installation tool is not very common, especially if you want to use tools like Python or other scripting languages.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Chocolatey
The big reason I picked Chocolatey was the fact that npm and Maven are not well-suited for native windows environments. I had to run on a Windows Server virtual machine, so was limited by what I could use, and I did not want to install WSL on the machine. So, I picked …
Hackage

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User Ratings
ChocolateyHackage
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
ChocolateyHackage
Likelihood to Recommend
Chocolately is perfect if you need a robust, well-supported (by the community) package manager. It has basically every major library/tool that you need to do development. I used it specifically in UI test automation.
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Pros
  • Package management
  • Dependency management
  • Ease of use
  • Availability of libs
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Cons
  • Available software to install is not easy to find.
  • You need admin rights to install all software.
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Alternatives Considered
On OSX machines we use brew which works if compared to Chocolatey, a lot better. You could see that on Windows machines the idea of a command line-based software installation tool is not very common, especially if you want to use tools like Python or other scripting languages.
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Return on Investment
  • Improved time to setup new machines
  • Improved security due to easy update process of installed software
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