[Feature Request] Winget and Scoop support

[azinsharaf]

hi, is there any plan to make the new releases available in winget, scoop or choco?

[lars-berger]

Yes, would like to get Zebar added to Winget and Scoop at some point. From what I can remember, they have some star requirements so not sure whether we're eligible currently.

[azinsharaf]

ok. currently the setup file needs admin access. can it be changed so it can be installed without admin access?

[lars-berger]

I believe it needs elevation just to save to C:\Program Files\. It could be changed to not save to C:\Program Files\, but that’s the most standard install location on Windows

[azinsharaf]

even with changing it to home folder, it says it needs admin privilege.

[lars-berger]

Hm yeah, I'm seeing the same. We're running a custom Wix template - I tried just now to change it to the default Tauri one and encountering the same behavior where elevation is needed for the home folder. A bit surprising since there's surely a lot of Tauri apps on Scoop.

[melMass]

I came to ask the same (scoop), that would be great, along the same lines a portable version would be nice: publishing the exe like you do for Glaze.

[lars-berger]

I came to ask the same (scoop), that would be great, along the same lines a portable version would be nice: publishing the exe like you do for Glaze.

Apparently packaging a Tauri app as a portable .exe is possible but not really ideal tauri-apps/tauri#3048

Does scoop/winget disallow .msi's that require elevation? Trying to find some relevant docs for this @azinsharaf

[azinsharaf]

i use a portable version of scoop that allows to install the apps in the home folder without admin right.
winget needs admin right since i haven't found a portable winget version.

[melMass]

Apparently packaging a Tauri app as a portable .exe is possible but not really ideal tauri-apps/tauri#3048

It makes sense, I'm going to ask on the Tauri board about the current status of things about this and scoop msi extraction mechanism and report here

i use a portable version of scoop that allows to install the apps in the home folder without admin right.

That's how scoop works by default

[azinsharaf]

i use a portable version of scoop that allows to install the apps in the home folder without admin right.

That's how scoop works by default

that is true. i meant choco portable.

[melMass]

I think in the case of zebar just extracting the binary seems to work.
I made a very basic recipe for scoop here: zebar.json

And this is the tree it installs (in ~/scoop/apps):

I made this quickly but I think wrapping the shims by the bat zebar provides is possible

[akthe-at]

@melMass will your bot update your scoop bucket for the latest release or would you have to do that manually?

[melMass]

@melMass will your bot update your scoop bucket for the latest release or would you have to do that manually?

Yep thanks to this line: https://github.com/melMass/scoop-mtb/blob/1115cb8e7d39a073d3dc40e5d24bcfed24c22021/bucket/zebar.json#L29

BUT (thanks for the notice) they changed the "naming convention" in 1.4.0 so it did not pick it up, I will fix it later today

[melMass]

Updated, it should work fine and update properly given the layout/naming convention doesn't change.

[akthe-at]

Thank you for doing that @melMass much appreciated!

[lars-berger]

Updated, it should work fine and update properly given the layout/naming convention doesn't change.

Sorry to say but just updated the naming convention once more 😅 GitHub alphabetically ordered the assets so the x64 Windows download was listed way at the bottom, which I think was causing some people to mistakenly download the arm64 version.

The new asset names are:

zebar-<VERSION>-opt1-x64.msi
zebar-<VERSION>-opt2-arm64.msi
zebar-<VERSION>-opt3.dmg
zebar-<VERSION>-opt4-x64.deb
zebar-<VERSION>-opt5-x64.AppImage

Thanks for cooking up a scoop config @melMass 🙏

[melMass]

Thanks for the heads up: melMass/scoop-mtb@e6882b1

[felipecrp]

@melMass I tested the zebar.json and it worked. Nice job.

What about creating a PR to the scoop extras bucket?

Regards,

[melMass]

What about creating a PR to the scoop extras bucket?

Yes, I will check the process!

[melMass]

@felipecrp please open an issue/feature request on Extras that I will reference in the PR

[michidk]

zebar is now available on winget:
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/g/glzr-io/zebar/1.8.1

[felipecrp]

@felipecrp please open an issue/feature request on Extras that I will reference in the PR

@melMass, I just created the issue.

[felipecrp]

The scoop pull request was created and merged. Thus, this issue can be closed.

ScoopInstaller/Extras#14041

[lars-berger]

The scoop pull request was created and merged. Thus, this issue can be closed.

ScoopInstaller/Extras#14041

Ay that's sick!! Y'all are awesome @michidk, @felipecrp and @melMass 🙏