microsoft / microsoft/msstore-cli
Old Versions?
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- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 163
- Forks
- 22
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
Microsoft Store’s API does not allow you to download old versions of apps, so please allow the downloading of older versions in the API, and implement it in WinGet: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/4472
Currently, the only way to access old versions of Microsoft Store apps is to find a user that has the older version installed to their device (which is incredibly hard to do) and use a special tool to extract it, but even then you need to modify the registry to install that dump.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked WinGet issue and verifying the Microsoft Store API limitation described here. No repository file or test is identified in the issue; the work would need a confirmed API path and a defined approach for exposing and validating older-version downloads in the CLI.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- api, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100