Closed Foadsf closed 4 years ago
Chocolatey is a package manager. So if the software is a package that can be installed then it will work with Chocolatey. While I'd imagine simple 'builds' could be done with a Chocolatey script, something like this wouldn't be a viable option.
I'll leave this open in the meantime but I will add the blocked label.
@pauby thanks for the immediate reply. Two questions:
I know of no other packages that build from source code. As I said unless it's incredibly simple, it wouldn't be viable to do as a package.
With regards to other packages you would need to check them out individually. I think getting the developer to provide A windows package would be a good start (an MSI if possible) and the Chocolatey community could pick that up and create a package from it. Building the package from scratch using the package manager is doing things the wrong way around.
@Foadsf Where are we with this one?
@pauby I don't know @Foadsf's status on this, but I tried working on it and got stuck in building it (reproducibly) on Windows, see https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony/issues/195#issuecomment-406175974. It seems to be a Boost (linking) issue, I am not sure where exactly the error stems from: https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony/issues/178#issuecomment-406779755
Given this has been open for a while, it needs to be compiled from source, Chocolatey in the short-term will not have this functionality, and there being little traction on the Boost issue, it would appear a package we use on the Chocolatey Community Repository is a long way off?
I am of the mind to close this for the time being with a view to reopening when this changes?
@AdmiringWorm @ComFreek @Foadsf what are your thoughts?
I agree on closing this for the time being.
@pauby I agree with you. We can always open this one in the future if anything changes.
website: http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/ github: https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony
was discussed here in this github issue.
P.S. Is there any way for Chocolatey to compile from the source like HomeBrew?