Consider publishing this in the Windows Store

[surban]

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Although it is not widely known, the Windows Store allows installation of command line binaries into a directory that is in the user's PATH. Having this collection of tools available to Windows users with a straightforward method for installation and upgrades would be a huge benefit.

[sylvestre]

Interesting idea! Is there "low level" tools on the Windows store already? And pure rust software ? (besides Firefox)

[surban]

Powershell and Python are available in the store, see https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9MZ1SNWT0N5D and https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PJPW5LDXLZ5.

ls is also available on the store, but without a trusted publisher and link to a repository I wouldn't trust it.

I don't know about Rust software, but it shouldn't matter since Rust is statically linked and you can use the full Win32 API from the store.

[sylvestre]

Cool, thanks for investigating! :)

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[YDX-2147483647]

I research it today, and I am afraid that Microsoft Store is not suitable for things like coreutils…

Python Doc:

Because of restrictions on Microsoft Store apps, Python scripts may not have full write access to shared locations such as TEMP and the registry. Instead, it will write to a private copy. If your scripts must modify the shared locations, you will need to install the full installer.

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When reading files, Windows will return the file from the private folder, or if that does not exist, the real Windows directory. For example reading C:\Windows\System32 returns the contents of C:\Windows\System32 plus the contents of C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\package_name\VFS\SystemX86.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/2758#issuecomment-1812587269

@YDX-2147483647, that's not a showstopper - just publishing the coreutils as an unsandboxed .MSIX file to https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs provides exactly the same benefits - some WinGet packages are even accessible via the Microsoft Store GUI.