Consider submitting to winget

[domenic]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'd like to easily and silently update DisplayMagician alongside other software on my system.

Secondarily, for new system setups, I'd like to easily and silently install DisplayMagician.

Describe the solution you'd like

Submit to the Windows Package Manager (winget) repository, and keep submitting new manifests for new releases. Then, I can run winget install terrymacdonald.DisplayMagician for install, or update DisplayMagician as part of my usual winget update workflow.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Windows Store is also an option, and maybe it's even a better one? But last time I looked, the submission process there was more painful.

Additional context

The main documentation entrypoint on the process is here.

From what I can tell, the first submission takes a bit of work. After that, you need to submit new PRs for new versions, but those should be easy to automate.

I did some brief googling for "submit to winget from github actions automatically on release" and it seems like this is probably the best setup.

[terrymacdonald]

Hi Domenic, My ultimate plan is to move to using Windows Store for DisplayMagician v3.0, as part of the giant rewrite I'm doing. This uses a completely different set of libraries, build pipeline and way of install, and I *think* it may offer you what you are looking for. I'll keep this issue open though so that I can make sure I offer this functionality at some point in the new v3.0 version. I'm only planning on offering bug fixes to the existing DisplayMagician v2.x code in any new releases, as I'm scrapping probably 70% of the code in the move to WinUI 3 and .Net 7/8. Thanks *Terry MacDonald *

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[domenic]

Sounds good! I was thinking this might be able to be done independently, since it actually doesn't involve any changes to your code at all. But waiting for the big rewrite is very reasonable.