microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
Add MaximumOSVersion and/or SupportedOSVersions to manifest
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Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
The manifest currently allows for a MinimumOSVersion to distinguish apps which cannot be installed on older versions of the OS. However, there are also some packages (see microsoft/winget-pkgs#62490) which cannot be installed on newer versions of the OS such as Windows 11. This compatibility issue should be able to be placed in the manifest
Proposed technical implementation details
- Implement a field in the manifest for fully defining OS version support
- Do something with that information
- Hide the packages which are unsupported?
- Mark the versions with a special character as suggested in #2134 ?
- Display a warning that installing this package on a newer OS may not work, or the program may need to be run in compatibility mode?
- Anything to keep users informed
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 reviewing how the manifest currently represents and uses MinimumOSVersion. Read microsoft/winget-pkgs#62490 and issue #2134 for the compatibility cases and proposed approaches. Done would require agreeing on a complete supported-OS field and a defined user-facing behavior for unsupported packages.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100