Make new command an interactive shell

aronovgj commented 9 years ago

A question is how detailed this will be.

An option would be something simple like:

Enter silent args
> /s

or you can do:

Enter silent args
MSI: /quiet /qn /norestart
InstallShield: /s
Inno: /sp- /silent /norestart
...
If you don't know what setup your software uses, try ussf
> /s

aronovgj commented 9 years ago

You could do both by adding something like a -v switch to new.

EntranceJew commented 7 years ago

I was thinking about something like this and here were my notes for features that would make the whole process a lot smoother. Some of these are would-be-nice but specifically the part about being able to stop the process long enough to experiment within the powershell instance would streamline a lot of the human elements and would clear up a lot of headspace for making decisions regarding how to structure a triple-package set and the like.

need a template that shares code for finding the latest version / metadata of a website for all versions of a package
need a library method for converting the contents of html nodes into markdown
input site url, scan for basic patterns that can be handled
- number of links that match a regex for ".exe, .msi, .zip"
- is this a sourceforge page?
- site copyright string / authors
- license urls
- page tags
- candidates for summary / description components
present the user with each of the automatic input pieces we found, as well as remind them of pieces missing
- show the string(s) [use numeric indexes if multiple candidates found, user picks best candidate to work with]
- allow the user to enter a shell and interrogate the results of the Invoke-WebRequest until they have a snippet that gets the string they desire
- allow the user to specify an xpath that gets the element, if there is no best choice
- allow the user to (supply or follow an on-page) URL for bits of information, restarting the process
- allow the user to decline supplying a variable
after downloading the file, interrogate it
- is it an installer? figure it out or run ussf for the user.
  - attempt installing silently, allow the user to fail the install test if it is not silent
  - if it can't be installed silently, attempt to extract the files and treat it like a zip (include dependencies for extractor, etc)
- is it a zip? extract it
  - show the resulting extracted files and let the user launch them and determine which need .ignore and .gui
  - move the files into location
if the installer didn't find a suitable media image for the package, extract the biggest of each ico resource group and convert to png
during uninstall (if necessary) snapshot processes and detect new processes initiated by the uninstaller, plan to kill them

pauby commented 7 months ago

The choco new command has many options that can be used to pass information to it. As it's a command line tool, making it interactive is not something we have plans to do.

I'm going to go ahead and close this, but we can reopen it if necessary.

chocolatey / choco

Make new command an interactive shell #410