`winget` support for Windows (requires installer)

[janpio]

Now that Windows binaries are available, it would be great to make them available via winget:

We now ship Windows binaries! Now we need to figure out how to make it easy to install it on Windows. What are the cool people using? Scoop? Chocolatey?

Originally posted by @Schniz in https://github.com/Schniz/fnm/issues/4#issuecomment-716360005

winget will probably get traction since it's supporter by Microsoft.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/

Originally posted by @ulrikstrid in https://github.com/Schniz/fnm/issues/4#issuecomment-716382270^

winget would be very nice, however it requires that packages have an installer. This could easily be created with msitools or NSIS under Linux.

Originally posted by @alumni in https://github.com/Schniz/fnm/issues/4#issuecomment-832589427

winget would be very nice, however it requires that packages have an installer. This could easily be created with msitools or NSIS under Linux.

Sorry for the bump / necropost winget in the future doesn't need the package to have an installer, but we need to wait for microsoft/winget-cli#140

Originally posted by @Hazmi35 in https://github.com/Schniz/fnm/issues/4#issuecomment-921762739

So while it would be nice if winget could already install plain .zip files, that is currently not the case yet.

Creating an installer that also takes care of setting the PATH seems like the best option then, which could then easily be turned into a winget package:

• [ ] Create installer during/after build_release (Windows) GitHub Actions workflow, that is uploaded as release artifact and included in GitHub releases.
• [ ] Create winget package with this new Windows installer

[janpio]

Volta seems to have an interesting GH Actions workflow that could probably help with the first step: https://github.com/volta-cli/volta/blob/7eb56c3aab5fbe47effe156a3f573428a4ed44ae/.github/workflows/release.yml#L106-L158

[awdr74100]

Very important for users who transfer from scoop to winget! Where can I help right now? Although I'm not familiar with rust.

[latipun7]

winget now support portable software installation: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/tag/v1.3.2091 Didn't require installer, CMIIW it only require the portable binary (*.exe). If fnm release the exe file (not inside zip), I think it could be done using winget-create in CI/CD. (I'm not familiar with winget workflows yet).

[alumni]

Seems to have been implemented in https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/98786