microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
[New Feature]: Replace "Installer failed with exit code: 0x80073d06" with a more user-friendly message
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Description
Description of the current behavior
When a dependency installation fails the user gets the unhelpful error message Installer failed with exit code: 0x80073d06. See https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/127953.
Description of the enhancement
Replace the unhelpful error message with a more user-friendly error message, something on the lines of "A dependency installation failed, to skip that installation use the argument --skip-dependencies"
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
Search the codebase for the exact message Installer failed with exit code: 0x80073d06 and trace where this dependency-installation failure is reported. Replace that wording with a user-friendly message explaining that --skip-dependencies can skip the installation, then verify the resulting error output in the relevant command path.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100