Hungry for dependency management on Windows? Eat Chocolatey!
April 21, 2022

Hungry for dependency management on Windows? Eat Chocolatey!

Chris Hyde | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Chocolatey

I needed to find a good way to manage dependencies on Windows machines - Chocolatey was it. There's no real good npm alternative on Windows.

Pros

  • Package management
  • Dependency management
  • Ease of use
  • Availability of libs

Cons

  • Maintenance - not all packages are kept up to date.
  • Dependency management
  • Removes manual efforts
  • Ease of upgrades
  • Saves many man hours from scripting installs/upgrades manually.
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 Chocolately for dependency management on those machines.

Do you think Chocolatey delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Chocolatey's feature set?

Yes

Did Chocolatey live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Chocolatey go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Chocolatey again?

Yes

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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