Distribution installation fails with error 0x8007019e on `windows-2025` preview image

[ssbarnea]

As github is always introducing changes to their default github runners, it would prove very useful to document their support, so users will not waste time trying to use this action on machines where it would not work.

For example windows-2025 is now on public preview and it seems that we cannot use the action on it. See https://github.com/pycontribs/mise-en-gha/actions/runs/12535474178/job/34957424199?pr=1

[Vampire]

Actually your first sentence already is the perfect argument against such a support matrix.
They constantly change things, sometimes breaking things.
Actually, the support matrix is there in the readme.
It states that windows-2019 and newer is supported for WSLv1 and windows-2022 and newer for WSLv2.
If you use a non-windows runner you get a clean and meaningful error from the action.
If you use WSLv2 on windows-2019 you get a clean and meaningful error from the action.

There are also daily running integration tests that test all functionality on a variety of combinations and on all runners,
so usually I should also relatively fast get aware of problems GitHub introduced recently and can either report, adapt, or work-around it.

Of course a new runner is not yet part of the test matrix, and especially as it is in preview. (Not that I was aware of it yet at all. :-D )

[Vampire]

The problem is, that WSL is not installed yet in the current windows-2025 image: actions/runner-images#11265.
It gets added with this recently merged PR: actions/runner-images#11242.

But I can probably work-around it in this action.
Currently tests are running, if they run through, I'll be able to release a new version of the action that compensates the problem.
In the meantime you could call wsl --install --no-distribution before using the action, then it should also work already on windows-2025.