microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
Improved architecture handling for Microsoft.Rest type source(s)
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Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Some packages offer a different "latest" version of an application based on the architecture supported.
When the WinGet client is communicating with a REST endpoint the communications should be optimized to deal with different versions for different architectures.
The default flow should provide a better customer experience for both the "install" and "upgrade" scenarios.
When a specific architecture is specified using arguments, the response should honor the architecture specified.
When the "download" flow is being used, there should be an affordance to download the latest versions for "all" architectures.
There may also be caveats when a specific version is requested as opposed to just the "latest" version.
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Proposed technical implementation details
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Research direction
Start with the requested install, upgrade, and download behaviors in this issue, then read the related winget-cli-restsource issue 276 for context. Define how architecture-specific responses, explicit architecture arguments, all-architecture downloads, and specific-version requests should behave before identifying implementation and test locations. Done means these scenarios have agreed behavior and coverage.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- api, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100