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@tats-u tats-u commented Mar 20, 2025

Bazelisk can be installed via Scoop or WinGet, too.

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@tats-u It may sound silly but considering winget is the default package manager, can I ask you please to take advantage of this PR and move it to show as the first option? (winget, then choco then scoop)

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tats-u commented Mar 20, 2025

The order you suggested is fine.
All of the 3 package managers have pros and cons respectively. I have installed all of them.

  • WinGet
    • Pros:
      • official
      • supports store apps
    • Cons:
      • no optimizations for CLI tools
        • if you install many CLI tools by it, the PATH will be longer than the Nile River or the Great Wall of China
        • CLIs are sometimes not in PATH
      • Package names are verbose
  • Chocolatey
    • Pros:
      • oldest
      • Better support for CLI than WinGet
    • Cons:
      • unofficial
      • tends to be superseded by WinGet?
      • sudo required
  • Scoop
    • pros
      • Optimized for CLIs
      • sudoless
    • cons
      • unofficial
      • not optimized for GUI apps

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albertocavalcante commented Mar 21, 2025

oh the CLA is failing because of my email, you can remove my co-author or change the email to [email protected]

thanks for the change and the summary breakdown!

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LGTM

Co-authored-by: Alberto Cavalcante <[email protected]>
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tats-u commented Mar 22, 2025

@albertocavalcante Fixed

@meteorcloudy meteorcloudy merged commit be1c257 into bazelbuild:master Mar 25, 2025
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