microsoft / microsoft/winget-create
Detect self extracting installers
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Issue-Feature
- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 651
- Forks
- 114
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
I'd like for wingetcreate to be able to detect self-extracting installers so they can be declared in the WinGet package Manifest.
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Proposed technical implementation details
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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 reading related issue 5583 and the wingetcreate repository to locate the installer-detection and manifest-generation entry points. Determine how self-extracting installers should be identified and represented in the WinGet package manifest; done means the tool detects them and produces the appropriate declaration.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100