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WinGet for Linux

Open BurningPho3nix opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Description of the new feature / enhancement

My idea would be if you could make a functioning version of winget for Linux

Proposed technical implementation details

Please don't take this serious, although it would be funny

BurningPho3nix avatar Nov 14 '23 13:11 BurningPho3nix

You already have Snap, apt, and brew for Linux. Winget is just like those Linux package managers but for Windows. The name itself reads Windows.

vedantmgoyal9 avatar Nov 15 '23 10:11 vedantmgoyal9

I agree @vedantmgoyal2009.

One option would be to for Linux can do query in WinGet repository, logically not upgrade nothing, only query and search.

If the idea is valid

willyamcts avatar Nov 21 '23 10:11 willyamcts

You already have Snap, apt, and brew for Linux. Winget is just like those Linux package managers but for Windows. The name itself reads Windows.

Like I've said, please don't take it serious

BurningPho3nix avatar Jan 09 '24 18:01 BurningPho3nix

What a great Idea, one Package Source and deploy it on multiple Clients. Real Use Case for me is, deploy for example Visual Studio Code in Package Repository and i could it deploy on Windows, Linux a.s.o.. Create it one time and deploy it everywhere ;-).

For now i have to create a package for winget, a package for snap or others. Multiple maintenance for each target platform :-( Not so great idea.

danlorb avatar Jan 20 '24 17:01 danlorb

Is there any linux-capable tooling which allows to query the winget repository and to pull referenced artifacts?

slackfan avatar May 29 '24 10:05 slackfan