winget sounds interesting and I encourage you to explore further. My reservation is that it bypasses all attempts we make on the wiki pages to inform users as to what they are getting and how to make use of it. But that may be a lost cause. And winget would certainly be easier for those who know exactly what they are doing.
Ideally it would handle beta releases as well as stable. On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 12:28 AM Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any interest from JSoftware in making J available for installation > via the Windows Package Manager? > > I've been using the Windows Package Manager > <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/> (via the > command line tool winget) to install applications on Windows for a year or > so. It is a welcome improvement on the traditional (for Windows) > time-consuming procedure (navigate-to-website, find-download-page, > download-software-installer, run-software-installer, configure-software). > > The number, quality and variety of available Packages > <https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests> is > compelling. Other programming languages represented are Julia, Python, > Scala, Golang, Erlang, Racket, Groovy. > > From what I can see making a J package available would just involve > creating > an appropriate manifest (Yaml file describing the current *.exe installer), > and submitting that manifest to the winget-pkgs GitHub repo > <https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs>. > > Once the PR is accepted, it would be possible to install J on Windows by > simply running `winget Jsoftware.Jlang.9.03` (or similar) from a cmd or > Powershell session. > > If there is any interest (or at least no opposition :-) ), I'd be happy to > investigate further. I'm equally happy to leave it for JSoftware to action > if preferred. > > Wishing you all a happy New Year! > Ric > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
