Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/20/13 2:15 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> I believe the Chocolatey install script in a package can put the files
> in any location, they just have defaults.  Chocolatey is a machine-wide
> package manager and NuGet seems to be more focused on libraries for
> specific apps, hence targeting the app source directory.
> 
> We have a mix of requirements, the (possibly machine-wide)
> infrastructure (VS, cygwin, python, CMake??, etc.) and then the
> libraries to link with (gtk, glib, qt etc.) so I'm not certain which
> tool is best, but it would seem that as Chocolatey has a wider range
> than NuGet it may be more appropriate.

I hadn't realized that Chocolatey falls back to the official NuGet
repositories, i.e. "chocolatey install jquery" downloads the jQuery
package from nuget.org and installs it in C:\Chocolatey\lib. This might
make managing dependencies a lot simpler.

> I still haven't looked into CoApp yet.

The part I'm using (AutoPackage) seems to make it easier to create a
properly-laid-out NuGet package but we could probably generate the
.nuspec files ourselves. The OBS → NuGet scripts are at

https://github.com/geraldcombs/wireshark-win-packaging

if anyone wants to play with them.