Remove deprecated Chocolatey shims (chocolatey, cinst, clist, cpush, cuninst, cup)

[gep13]

In v1.0.0 we marked the Chocolatey shims as deprecated

• chocolatey
• cinst
• clist
• cpush
• cuninst
• cup

These now need to be removed completely.

Usage of these shims should be removed from the help documentation, and the genaratedocs.ps1 file should be updated to remove the explicit warnings about their removal in 2.0.0.

This is a follow up issue from this one in the 1.0.0 milestone: #2641

[gep13]

@vexx32 I have a branch in the making that has these changes on it.

[sebma]

@gep13 Hi, these shims really came handy.

Do you know any replacement for those ?

[vexx32]

@sebma if using PowerShell, you can always define functions to replace them in your profile. For example:

function cinst {
    choco install @args
}

There's probably a way to do similar by adding a few custom batch files to a folder on your PATH, but I don't recall offhand what that looks like.

[sebma]

@vexx32 Thanks for the function. I guess I will have to do on every new chocolatay install.

[gep13]

Nothing to stop you creating a package with these commands, and installing that package on initial installation.

[sebma]

@gep13 You're right. I will have to learn how to do that.

You wrote :

These now need to be removed completely.

One last question : Why ?

[gep13]

@sebma said:
One last question : Why ?

This was done for consistency in terms of usage of Chocolatey.

In the 1.0.0 release of Chocolatey, we removed the cpack alias due to a conflict with the CMake application. You can find details about that here:

#89

Given that we are not able to have the cpack alias, the decision was taken to defer to default to using the choco command everywhere, and being very explicit about its usage. In addition, it is a simple matter to add the PowerShell aliases for those folks who want to continue to use them.

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[jeremyj563]

For anyone like myself who wants these shims back: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/choco-shim-redirects