Could we have a static "latest-release" link? Or a repo with the releases?

[fabiorzfreitas]

Like many other tools, there are lots of users interested in deploying Everything programmatically.

The latest stable release alone had almost 400 000 downloads on Chocolatey!

Nevertheless, I have been informed by other members in this forum that "1.4 is not that great, you should try 1.5". I intend to do so, but I'd also would like to maintain a new Chocolatey 1.5 package, or ask for the implementation of an optional --prerelease switch on the current one.

I've been told that depending on a non-static link, specially if it's inside a forum post, would make it very troublesome for auto-updating a package.

As such, I think that there are a couple of measures that could solve this:

1. The releases (not the source code, but the compiled files) could be available in a repo. Such a repo probably already exists, since every new release is directly hosted on VoidTools.com/x;

2. Given the bottom line's "In Development" link already points to the forum, which then points the download link back to the website, perhaps the website could have an "Alpha" section with the current binaries right next to "In Development".

Thanks for your attention

[void]

I have added the following direct links to the latest 1.5 alpha version:

https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.5a.x64-Setup.exe
https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.5a.x86-Setup.exe
https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.5a.x64.zip
https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.5a.x86.zip



Everything 1.5 is still in development.
I will add links to the main page once in beta.

[fabiorzfreitas]

Thank you!

[oleg84]

Like many other tools, there are lots of users interested in deploying Everything programmatically.

The latest stable release alone had almost 400 000 downloads on Chocolatey!

Nevertheless, I have been informed by other members in this forum that "1.4 is not that great, you should try 1.5". I intend to do so, but I'd also would like to maintain a new Chocolatey 1.5 package, or ask for the implementation of an optional --prerelease switch on the current one.

I've been told that depending on a non-static link, specially if it's inside a forum post, would make it very troublesome for auto-updating a package.

As such, I think that there are a couple of measures that could solve this:

1. The releases (not the source code, but the compiled files) could be available in a repo. Such a repo probably already exists, since every new release is directly hosted on VoidTools.com/x;

2. Given the bottom line's "In Development" link already points to the forum, which then points the download link back to the website, perhaps the website could have an "Alpha" section with the current binaries right next to "In Development".

Thanks for your attention

Hey @fabiorzfreitas!

What is the current status of adding Everything 1.5 prerelease to Chocolatey?

I've been using Everything 1.5 for quite a while now.
Recent upgrade of Chocolatey packages (choco upgrade all -y) broke my Everything 1.5 manual installation.
It happened because I install other packages (namely ES) through Choco. And upgrade upgraded all its dependencies including Everything.

Having Everything 1.5 in Choco will help a lot with this.