microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
Ability to download multiple packages in a single command
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Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
The install and upgrade commands support passing in multiple package queries (https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/219). The download command should also support multiple queries as:
winget download [[-q] <query1> <query2>...] [<options>]
Proposed technical implementation details
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Research direction
Compare the existing install and upgrade command handling for multiple package queries with the download command's argument parsing. Confirm the documented multi-query syntax, add coverage for multiple download queries, and verify that each query is processed successfully.
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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
- 35/100