Scoop, a new way to install?

[tfer]

Having to set up a new laptop to work with Leo and follow some of the current lines of development, I came across a new command line installer for Windows, scoop.  It is written in Powershell and to install a particular app scoop can run off a json file in the git repo.

Currently, I clone Leo-Editor to a local repo, Install Python 3 with all the bells and whistles by using Anaconda.  I usually run Leo from a special powershell session under Cmdr.

Tom 

[tfer]

I should mention that what I have used scoop for so far, is to install ripgrep, and Neovim.

As a plus, it looks like scoop will let you known if an app has a newer version available.

Tom

[Edward K. Ream]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 7:51 PM 'tfer' via leo-editor <leo-e...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I should mention that what I have used scoop for so far, is to install ripgrep, and Neovim.

As a plus, it looks like scoop will let you known if an app has a newer version available.

I am going to stick with conda install and pip install.  That way I use the more typical installation methods.

Perhaps Matt will be interested in scoop for his work.

Edward

[Matt Wilkie]

I am going to stick with conda install and pip install.  That way I use the more typical installation methods.

Perhaps Matt will be interested in scoop for his work.

Thanks! I will check it out. So far I've investigated Chocolatey, Just-install.it, Ninite, and a number of others including my own. They're all good in one way or another, frequently many ways. None have sold me yet, mostly because the scene is changing so fast and I can't tell which will have longevity.

Matt