Publish to WinGet (Automated)

[vedantmgoyal9]

• Follow-up of winget support #9073

It was two years ago when WinGet was just released. Now, 2 years later, things have changed.

Seeing the main issue was continuously updating manifests with every new release, there is now a GitHub Action which automatically publishes releases to the WinGet repository using a GitHub personal access token.

If you want I can create a pull request that will add the action, and would need no maintenance (everything's automated ;))

[bdach]

Seeing that literally nobody has inquired about this for the 2 years since the original thread, I'd say we're fine to continue ignoring winget's existence and keep our one single distribution method for windows as is.

[vedantmgoyal9]

• Install Option: Add winget as an install option #15007

@peppy @bdach There are people who are interested but seems like it didn't gather much attention from the maintainers, so people also didn't care about discussing this topic. I've created this discussion so that it may get into attention of other maintainers and hopefully we can make osu! available to different platforms via package managers. I would suggest WinGet for Windows and brew for macOS and Linux(?).

If you want I can create GitHub Workflows for it so that you don't have to spend time manually publishing updates to the above.

[peppy]

Please wait for other users to actually show support. I've never heard of a single person using winget in the wild.

[bdach]

I might have been wrong about "literally nobody" asking about it but 2 users in 2 years is still pretty insignificant, all things considered. Discussions are there to vote on them to show support, and that one barely got any support.

[vedantmgoyal9]

I would more happy if you would pin it.

[SheepCommander]

cri ;-;

Well osu! is on winget now, and it pulls the latest release from this repo sorta...

[Exorcism0666]

@bdach I don't have to contact you if I feel like it, now if this really is a problem for you, please open an “Issue” in the Winget repo to let us know if you want to remove osu.

[peppy]

jesus.

[BiosPlus]

I mean, is there really an expectation to contact you about redistribution of the software even though the practice is in line with your license 🤔

[peppy]

licence != trademark. also common decency. also it was published with completely incorrect naming / metadata.

[bdach]

also this is a thing that also happened?

@Susko3 why did you not even backlink that issue to this thread or mention this to any of us over here? what in the heck is going on here? i expect much better from you specifically as a recurring contributor.