Publish package in Windows package managers

[nhomble]

Has there been any consideration about adding the .exe to a package manager?
Could be msft's new winget or a chocolatey package.

[Sovgut]

why not winget instead?

refs
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/

[nhomble]

I'm just familiar with choco. Since there's already an installer for windows, I can't imagine a ton of toil supporting many package managers if the maintainers want. On my local, updating the choco manifest was just a couple lines pointing to the github release with some metadata.

[Sovgut]

But winget already included in some builds in windows 10 and windows 11

[nhomble]

Didn't know that! Lemme adjust the ticket to reflect package manager support then rather than assuming choco.

[ghost]

I have used choco in the past but it seems winget is newer and more officially supported.
Some Info on submissions to winget is here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/package/

[russellbanks]

I would suggest using WinGet Releaser to automate the releases to winget, once it has been added.

[FIr3baL]

@p2004a Do you want to move this topic over to launcher ?

[p2004a]

@FIr3baL moved issue to spring-launcher repo

[wvanderp]

I'm still interested in this. I have a manifest locally to add to BYAR-Chobby in the Winget repo.

You would then install the launcher with Winget, which would install BAR.

However, it would be better to integrate this into the release process of BYAR-Chobby.

Are you interested if this was further explored? Aka, should I put time into this?
Otherwise, I will spin up some automation of my own to automatically submit the new build to Winget.

[wvanderp]

I've submitted a version manually.

microsoft/winget-pkgs#155045

I would appreciate some feedback on the values.

If this works, I can work on automating the submission of new versions

[wvanderp]

The manual version is now in the Winget repo.

microsoft/winget-pkgs#155045

and it's slowly making its way to third-party websites
https://winstall.app/apps/Beyond-All-Reason.Beyond-All-Reason

I've set up an email alert to update the installer when a new version is available.

Another improvement could be to set up a bot like the one mentioned in previous comments.