Make a Winget package

AFaustini · Post by **AFaustini** » Sun May 30, 2021 10:12 pm

Last week Microsoft released Winget, a command line package manager.
In next version of Windows 10, winget will be a default part of OS.
Why not release a package of Quickplay on this service?
It's easy to create a package:
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-create
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cre ... doc/new.md

Post by **butter100fly** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:23 pm

I think tbh a main part of the answer is the same as why QuickPlay isn't on any other app repositories: all the spare time I have has to directly go into coding on QuickPlay itself (as well as maintaning the forums, the wiki, the website, the release mechanism, the sourceforge admin). I have no time left for things like this i'm afraid....

AFaustini · Post by **AFaustini** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:19 pm

i can mantain the package.
The only thing that i need is a self extracting zip to make a package, as Winget doesn't accept (for now) zip files.

Post by **butter100fly** » Mon Jun 14, 2021 4:37 pm

great, would this be acceptable? https://sourceforge.net/projects/quickp ... t/download

AFaustini · Post by **AFaustini** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:47 am

No. Must be a .exe
At least for now.

Post by **butter100fly** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:02 pm

I guess i meant could you download that and do something like https://www.wikihow.com/Use-7Zip-to-Cre ... excutables ?

AFaustini · Post by **AFaustini** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:53 pm

Yes. But i have to upload it somewhere. If the .exe is stored along the other official download of QuickPlay it would be ideal for submission.

Post by **butter100fly** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:57 pm

hmm ok so you're asking me to change the quickplay package from a zip to a self-extracting zip, right?....I'll have to think about that, I don't know how easy it is to automate that for release, and I worry a lot about anti-virus programs kicking off and causing a great deal of work to unblacklist things all over again....Its also occured to me though that Windows Defender does flag up the existing Quickplay package (see viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1436#p2008) - I've already fixed this locally but I still haven't found the time to release it, so I'm also worried if you self-extract something that already kicks off Windows Defender and submit it to Microsoft for their own package management service, that might potentially cause some unpleasantness?

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