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dom96 / choosenim

Tool for easily installing and managing multiple versions of the Nim programming language.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Register winget package for Windows #316

Closed adigitoleo closed 1 year ago

adigitoleo commented 1 year ago

Heading towards a v1.0 release, I wonder if a winget package could be registered for Windows. I try to manage all my significant windows packages through this new (official) CLI manager. I understand that some people may still prefer third party managers like chocolatey or similar, and even more people probably are happy with zip files, but preparing the winget manifest does not seem too complicated and submitting the registry PR can be automated with github actions. I have not had any issues with winget so far (~1 year light use on two machines).

adigitoleo commented 1 year ago

Whoops I just remembered that they don't have a registrator bot (AFAIK) so I could just create the manifests and submit the PR manually. Not sure if there is even a way to automate it with actions after all, unless there is some kind of git-submodule magic that can be used here (I don't know enough about submodules).

adigitoleo commented 1 year ago

OK I found some more info. There are pending discussions about adding some kind of registration automation e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/1515

There are some options like following the PowerToys approach or using a new third-party GH action.

dom96 commented 1 year ago

If you're interested in getting it into winget then please do so.

adigitoleo commented 1 year ago

OK I'm happy to submit the manifest in that case. Draft of the files here. One question: the nimble metadata suggests that this package is under the MIT license, but the LICENSE file is for BSD-3, which one is it?

dom96 commented 1 year ago

BSD-3