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digitalmars.D - dlang-community should take over maintenance of the dmd chocolatey

reply singingbush <singingbush hotmail.com> writes:
The chocolatey installer for dmd is stuck on 2.100.2 as it's not 
been maintained in ages. There is a process for changing the 
maintainer of a package in this situation, documented here: 
https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/community-repository/users/package-triage-process/#the-triage-process

I asked the maintainer if they would transfer the repo over to 
dlang-community back in 2023: 
https://github.com/PxlBuzzard/ChocoPackages/issues/8#issuecomment-1786906856

It would be great if new dmd releases were made available via 
chocolatey as part of the release process so would someone within 
the core Dlang team reach out to chocolatey to take over 
maintenance of the package.
Apr 21
parent notna <notna.remove.this ist-einmalig.de> writes:
On Monday, 21 April 2025 at 21:30:07 UTC, singingbush wrote:

 The chocolatey installer for dmd is stuck on 2.100.2 as it's 
 not been maintained in ages. There is a process for changing 
 the maintainer of a package in this situation, documented here: 
 https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/community-repository/users/package-triage-process/#the-triage-process

 I asked the maintainer if they would transfer the repo over to 
 dlang-community back in 2023: 
 https://github.com/PxlBuzzard/ChocoPackages/issues/8#issuecomment-1786906856

 It would be great if new dmd releases were made available via 
 chocolatey as part of the release process so would someone 
 within the core Dlang team reach out to chocolatey to take over 
 maintenance[ of the package.


Well, I personally stopped using choco long ago. Instead, I use 
[scoop](https://scoop.sh/), which has (git repo based) buckets 
with manifests, which have an `autoupdate` feature.
Once installed, you now and then run `scoop update *` and all 
your installed software is up2date...

To install `dmd`, just follow https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=dmd :)
Apr 24