Chocolatey package is outdated

[jorrit]

Altair is available at Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/altair-graphql

Unfortunately, the package is outdated. I wonder if the developers of Altair could take over the package and automatically deploy each release.

[imolorhe]

Not sure what that would entail. Cc @danielr1996 Perhaps this could be added as part of the CI publishing pipeline using the chocolatey github action, although this looks like it is only for installing chocolatey packages. If someone can describe what this will entail and how best to fit this into the publishing pipeline, I am happy to consider it.

[danielr1996]

My package https://github.com/danielr1996/altair-graphql-chocolatey is currently outdated because I haven't used graphql in a long time, therefore I don't plan to update the package. However I would encourage the transfer of the package name to @imolorhe and the inclusion of the publishing process in the pipeline in this official repository to take the pain of manually updating the package. Also feel free to take any content from https://github.com/danielr1996/altair-graphql-chocolatey as a starting point for implementing the publishing process in the CI pipeline. As far as I can tell everything that needs to be done is switch out the version in the install script and the nuspec. According to this answer on stackoverflow building on linux is also supported. Also https://github.com/marketplace/actions/chocolatey-action just installs the choco binary, so choco pack and choco push should also work, but I haven't tried it myself.

[imolorhe]

@danielr1996 how would we transfer the package name?

[danielr1996]

@imolorhe as the current maintainer I can add you as a maintainer for the package, afterwards you are in full control of that package and can publish new versions for the packages.

[imolorhe]

@danielr1996 okay let's do that

[danielr1996]

Then I need your chocolatey username, if you do not have one yet you can create an account at: https://community.chocolatey.org/account/Register

[imolorhe]

Registered. Username is imolorhe

[danielr1996]

@imolorhe I added you as a maintainer, feel free to remove me as a maintainer.

[imolorhe]

Thanks @danielr1996! And thanks for setting this up initially too!

[imolorhe]

I've added the chocolatey build to the workflow in a PR. The v4.0.11 has been published and is pending a moderator approval. Could someone test to verify that it works fine once it is approved?

[imolorhe]

Looks like the choco package has been approved https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/altair-graphql/#files

[jorrit]

I just installed Altair 4.1.0 via Chocolatey. Thanks to all involved for making this work!