Provide a standardized method of installation on Windows.
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Description
Providing an installer (ideally with a basic updater) would significantly lessen the burden of evaluating new releases. Currently, .deb releases are provided, so these tools are certainly ready for installation.
The .msix, .appx, .msi, and mere .exe formats (.msix being the most desirable) are viable alternatives to the current .zip packaging. However, if maintenance of such an installer is undesirable, perhaps submitting the zip files (since this https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/140 is complete) to the official Windows Package Manager, (winget's) repository (per winget-pkgs/blob/4c9bd7f275225fa97db5300e86c2b22d2be9c720/README.md#submitting-a-package) is superior?
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 reviewing the existing .deb and .zip release packaging, then read the linked winget-cli and winget-pkgs submission guidance. Done means the project has a maintained Windows installation path, either through an installer/updater or an accepted Windows Package Manager package.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100