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Is Chocolatey a higher version of NuGet or a different package manager? Where should I put my open source application? NuGet or Chocolatey?
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Chocolatey is software management automation. Chocolatey works with over 20+ installer technologies for Windows, but it can manage things you would normally xcopy deploy (like runtime binaries and zip files). You can also work with registry settings or managing files and configurations, or any combination.
As a quick reminder, Scoop and Chocolatey both enable you to install Windows programs from the command line, using a single command. They avoid the need to manually visit download sites and click through graphical installers.
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get but for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need.
Put simply, a NuGet package is a single ZIP file with the . nupkg extension that contains compiled code (DLLs), other files related to that code, and a descriptive manifest that includes information like the package's version number.
NuGet is designed to allow you to easily add code libraries to your project. Things like JSON.NET, Entity Framework, etc.
Chocolatey is actually built on top of the NuGet package system, but it is designed to fill a different need. Chocolatey wraps up applications and other executables and makes it easy to install them on your computer. For example, tools like Git, Notepad++, etc. can be easily installed with a command like cinst git.
https://chocolatey.org/packages has a list of all the applications that can be installed.
If you have an open source project which is a library that is to be used in other developers' projects, then you should submit it to NuGet.
If it is an application that users would normally install, then create a Chocolatey package that users can easily install and update from the command line.
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