Chocolatey vs Winget

[NameOfTheDragon]

I see that SS has started supporting install via Chocolatey, and a couple of years ago I would have welcomed that, but Chocolatey is a bit "last year" now. It has gone a bit corporate and hides some of its features behind a paywall, which I think is why Microsoft made winget and built it into Windows.

SuperSlicer is looking a bit behind the curve then, since other slicers are already supported via winget. For example, you can:

winget install Prusa3D.PrusaSlicer

and walla. Much less fuss than Chocolatey, actually, and no additional tools to install because winget is part of windows.

Here are the supported packages based on the keyword "slicer":

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2861]
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C:\Users\Tim> winget search slicer

Name              Id                        Version   Match          Source
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UVtools           PTRTECH.UVtools           4.0.5     Tag: slicer    winget
PrusaSlicer       Prusa3D.PrusaSlicer       2.7.1     Tag: slicer    winget
OrcaSlicer        SoftFever.OrcaSlicer      1.8.1                    winget
PrusaSlicer Alpha Prusa3D.PrusaSlicer.Alpha 2.6.0-rc2                winget
Ultimaker Cura    Ultimaker.Cura            5.6.0     Tag: 3d-slicer winget

I think this is the right way to go for SuperSlicer, too, and I hope you will agree @supermerill and make it available via winget.

[supermerill]

thanks for tip
I'm not maintaining any repository myself, chocolatey, and any linux thingy has been done by someone else.
I'll try to maintain it or maybe i can do a script.