Winget packages

[erik-brangs]

It would be great if there were packages for Windows Package Manager. Would you be willing to provide such packages?

Alternatively, I could file a package request at https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs .

[davidbannon]

Interesting Erik, I don't know anything about it so will have to have a read when time permits. Thanks for the pointer.

As a matter of interest, do you find the way -ng is packaged now unsatisfactory ? (apart from looking pretty much the same as I remember last time I used Windows full time, at least 20 years ago !). Or is it a matter of distribution ?

Davo

[erik-brangs]

The main advantage of Windows Package Manager for me is that I can more easily update packages, i.e. I don't have to update every software separately.

If I understood it correctly, Windows Package Manager supports some common Windows installation formats out of the box. The current version of Windows Package Manager also recognizes software that was installed without it, provided someone created a package for it. On my system, winget upgrade showed more than a dozen applications that I previously installed without it.