Feature request: provide .ps1 install script for Windows

[ducaale]

TinyTeX currently provides the Windows installer as a batch file which requires more steps to use than its Linux/macOS counterpart. It would be nice if there was a powershell version that could be downloaded and executed in a single command, e.g iwr -useb https://deno.land/install.ps1 | iex.

For context, I would like to add one-liner instructions for how to install TinyTeX in https://github.com/saadq/resumake.io

# Shell (Mac, Linux)
$ curl -sL https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-unix.sh | sh

# PowerShell (Windows)
$ iwr -useb https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-windows.ps1 | iex

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[cderv]

Hi,

For reference, know that there are several ways to install TinyTeX on Windows:

• Using choco install tinytex from Chocolatey community repo
• Using scoop install tinytex from https://github.com/cderv/r-bucket#tinytex---tex-live-distribution
• Using quarto install tool tinytex for Quarto user (https://quarto.org/)
• Downloading and unzipping from the release page of https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases/

Making a powershell script for installation would mean doing the 4th solution.
I can see if we can convert the script to powershell. .bat is used because it works on more Windows version (historically) and it is easy enough to run from powershell too. The script is also there since a long time and properly tested through time as used in some other project out there.

If you already have done such script for powershell, please do share. Thank you !

[ducaale]

Thanks, I have the following script based on https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/install.ps1?code=

#!/usr/bin/env pwsh

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

if (Get-Command "tlmgr" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
  $InstalledPkgs = tlmgr info --list --only-installed --data name
  if ($InstalledPkgs) {
    $InstalledPkgs = $InstalledPkgs -replace ("`n", " ")
    Write-Output "If you want to reinstall currently installed packages, use this command after the TinyTeX installation is done:"
    Write-Output ""
    Write-Output "tlmgr install ${InstalledPkgs}`n"
  }
}

$Version = $env:TINYTEX_VERSION
$Installer = if ($env:TINYTEX_INSTALLER) {
  $env:TINYTEX_INSTALLER
} else {
  "TinyTeX-1"
}

$DestDir = $env:APPDATA
$TinyTeXZip = "$env:TEMP\TinyTeX.zip"

# GitHub requires TLS 1.2
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

$TinyTeXUri = if (!$Version) {
  "https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases/releases/download/daily/${Installer}.zip"
} else {
  "https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases/releases/download/v${Version}/${Installer}-v${Version}.zip"
}

curl.exe -Lo $TinyTeXZip $TinyTeXUri
Expand-Archive -Force -Path $TinyTeXZip -DestinationPath $DestDir
Remove-Item $TinyTeXZip

Write-Output "add tlmgr to PATH"

$Tlmgr = "${DestDir}\TinyTeX\bin\win32\tlmgr.bat"
Invoke-Expression "${Tlmgr} path add"
if (!$env:CI) {
  Invoke-Expression "${Tlmgr} option repository ctan"
}
# GH issue #313
Invoke-Expression "${Tlmgr} postaction install script xetex"

[cderv]

Awesome thank you !