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This is similar to how a lot of the homebrew cask packages work on OS X. Ninite appears to be more end-user/consumer focused while chocolatey aims for a wider swath of developer packages as well.

Personally, I use neither because neither is open source. Instead, I use scoop: http://scoop.sh/

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“Neither”? Yes, Ninite is closed, e.g. https://ninite.com/help/notfeatures/more.html

But alternatives aren’t:

Chocolatey - Apache license - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco

Homebrew (for Mac) - BSD license - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew

Scoop (as previously mentioned) - Public Domain - https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop

Comparing Scoop to Chocolatey: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Compari...

Whoa, thanks.

>> Looking for familiar Unix tools? Tired of Powershell’s Verb-Noun verbosity?

Sold.

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