I ended up uploading the chocolatey package to the official gallery:
http://chocolatey.org/packages/nodist.  Its marked as prerelease now
though, so people will recognize its perhaps not done.  It seems to work
well though, I've ran it on a few VMs now successfully.


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Frank Schwieterman <fschwiet@gmail.com>wrote:

>   On the bright side, if someone installs via chocolatey then the path
> will not have a space.  I tried to put together a package (learning
> chocolatey too...), it worked on my last attempt:
> https://github.com/fschwiet/nodist/blob/chocolatey/chocolatey/tools/chocolateyInstall.ps1
>
>   Still experimental, to use it, install chocolatey (
> http://chocolatey.org/) then build/install the package:
>   c:\nodist\chocolately> cpack
>   c:\nodist\chocolately> cinst nodist -source c:\nodist\chocolately
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Marcel Klehr <notifications@github.com>wrote:
>
>> In README.md:
>>
>> > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Don't install node beforehand!
>> >  2. When you've got the code, add `...path...\nodist\bin` to your path ([how?](http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm)).
>> >
>> >  3. Now, run `nodist update`, which will install the dependencies.
>> > +    * From powershell, use cmd /c "nodist update"
>>
>> ah. the space in path bug again...
>>
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