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title: Dart Sass is On Chocolatey
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author: Natalie Weizenbaum
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date: 2017-01-13 14:43:00 -8
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---
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One of the quieter benefits of [moving to Dart](/blog/announcing-dart-sass) is
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how easy it is to distribute Dart applications. The Dart VM is able to bundle
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all the sources for an application into one easy-to-load binary snapshot, which
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means running a Dart application requires only three files: the `dart`
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executable, the snapshot file, and a tiny shell script to invoke the app[^1].
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This is a huge relief coming from Ruby, which required a whole installation of
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executables and libraries in order to run a single app.
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Those three files are what we distribute today [on our GitHub release
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page](https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/releases). But finding, downloading, and
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opening an archive and adding it to the command-line path is still a barrier to
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entry that we'd like to avoid where possible. Today we're taking a step in that
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direction by releasing [a Dart Sass
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package](https://chocolatey.org/packages/sass) on
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[Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/), the Windows package manager. You can
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install it now using:
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```shellsession
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$ choco install sass -prerelease
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```
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This will give you a `sass` executable that runs Dart Sass on the (really fast)
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Dart VM.
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A large percentage of Sass users are on Windows, and it hasn't always been easy
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for them to get the latest and greatest Sass versions without a bunch of
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installation headaches. I'm excited that we can start taking advantage of our
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new infrastructure to fix that.
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In addition to Chocolatey, we'd love to get Dart Sass on
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[Homebrew](http://brew.sh/) for our OS X users. If you're interested in helping
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out with that, let us know—[this
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issue](https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/issues/97) would be a great place to
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start!
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[^1]: There's also [an open
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issue](https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/27596) for bundling the VM
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and the snapshot into a single executable file, which would allow us to pare
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down our distribution to a single file.
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