(unofficial) Chocolatey .nuspec Checker (CNC) (Script)

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### [choco://choco-nuspec-checker](choco://choco-nuspec-checker)

To use choco:// protocol URLs, install [(unofficial) choco:// Protocol support ](https://chocolatey.org/packages/choco-protocol-support)

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### Original Author

CNC was originally created by [Bill Curran](https://github.com/bcurran3). The original repo can be found [here](https://github.com/bcurran3/ChocolateyPackages/tree/master/choco-nuspec-checker).

### Description

**choco-nuspec-checker** (**CNC**) is a PowerShell script I designed for Chocolatey package maintainers/creators to check Chocolatey .nuspec files for common errors and omissions... and automatically fix most of them! Find out AND FIX what the Chocolatey validator is going to tell you BEFORE you submit your package. **CNC** also goes beyond it's original scope and checks for common Chocolatey install/uninstall script errors and omissions as well.

### FEATURES:

* **CNC** checks all .nuspec elements and reports any missing or template default values, now recursively too!

* **CNC** checks for all verifier messages (guidelines, suggestions, and notes) and reports them if applicable

* **CNC** checks for dead URLs and reports them

* **CNC** checks for GitHub direct links, reports them, and can convert them to various CDN URLs (default=Staticaly)

* **CNC** checks for RawGit CDN links, reports them, and can convert them to various CDN URLs (default=Staticaly)

* **CNC** can open all your .nuspec element URLs in your default browser for quick viewing

* **CNC** checks and reports current status of your package on chocolatey.org

* **CNC** can add a standard template header, footer, and/or package notes to your .nuspec description with variables

* **CNC** checks nuspec and PowerShell scripts for correct UTF-8 encoding and reports if the encoding is incorrect

* **CNC** can re-write your nuspec in UTF-8 w/o BOM format