michfield / devbox-choco Goto Github PK

I can understand the need to share some common code amongst packages, but IMHO, it shouldn't be in another depedent package -- but should be a basic nuspec include, used only during installation.

As it stands, DevBox-ConEmu throws an error about missing Stop-OnAppIsInstalled (though ConEmu will completely install) because that function is not defined. Although you've included a couple of additional packages they are not yet available on a first time install.

What I do, for installation only dependencie:

• put the code in a shared source directory like this
• include the source in the .nuspec like this
• use a helper to properly resolve the current directory and dot source the files like this (there are a lot of ways to attempt to resolve the current directory, many of which fail under certain circumstances -- this is the most accurate I was able to create)

This way there is no need to depend on another package, muddy a users system with additional stuff, etc.

Also, I see that your helper code is in Devbox-Common.extension as psm1 files. psm1 is intended to export functions to external callers with Export-ModuleMember and should be used with PowerShells Import-Module cmdlet. For helper functions used by packages like this, it's less ceremonious to just use a standard ps1 and dot source as I described above.

In any event, great job on the ConEmu package -- much better than the original package, which was put together quite hastily and hasn't been updated in ages.

Thanks!

Error is something like... can't write getopt.exe. When executed with elevated privileges, as administrator, everything works as expected.

Workaround is to start again cmd.exe but as administrator, and type cinst -force Devbox-GitFlow

Could it be updated to use the VerySilent mode in the installer? to prevent all dialogs and prompts?

http://www.rapidee.com/en/silent-installation