microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
[New Feature]: Winget should be able to handle SFX-ZIPs like normal ZIPs
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
With the upcoming release winget will be able to deal with ZIP-archives containing installers.
As some programmes are delivered as self-extracting-ZIP-archives (exe files) that require a manual installation after the extraction winget should be able to handle these exe-SFX-ZIPs like normal ZIPs.
Though I have a very limited technical understanding of it I presume that most of the code necessary to do this should already be present in winget as ZIP-handling is already implemented and to my knowledge the SFX-code es simply appended to ZIPs to create SFX-exes.
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Research direction
Start by examining winget's existing ZIP-handling implementation and how self-extracting ZIP archives are identified and extracted. Clarify the expected behavior for an EXE SFX archive that contains an installer, then verify that it is processed like a normal ZIP and leaves the contained installer available for manual installation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100