Kudos to Chocolatey on Windows, they immediately updated their Git package [0] to v2.14.1, so a simple `choco upgrade -y git` gets me up to date. If only life on Windows had always been this hassle free.
I was very happy when I found http://scoop.sh. It's simpler and slightly less powerful, and most notably it just runs official installers in the background instead of copying binaries over from the source and packing them up in a special way.
(It's also at the latest got already)
Part of my workflow involves using ncat.exe to use git over a socks/ssh proxy. A real pain. I noticed scoop has nc but not ncat.
(Actually I used to run all devtools, eg git and webpack I etc etc on WSL entirely but it still has too many quirks. Moved back to plain Windows recently and I'm happier)
For stuff that needs to run everywhere and I don't feel like writing two versions of scripts, I just use Python.
I haven't released it yet, but Napkin solves this very issue.
I don't really get it. I did a fresh install of it a few minutes ago, gave the command to install 7zip. Then it downloaded the file, said it was installing, and it just sat there for 10-15 minutes before I got fed up and hit CTRL+C to cancel it. Then it kicked back into gear and magically finished the install somehow?
Edit: it seems to have one.
They have a switch to configure it once and have their tool figure out the right argument for each installer by itself, but it's only for paid users (~$96/year)