Use wingetcreate for package submissions

[mdanish-kh]

Problem

Currently, a lot of Netron package PRs are getting labeled with Manifest-Version-Deprecated over at winget-pkgs: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Alutzroeder+is%3Aclosed+label%3AManifest-Version-Deprecated. This is because the action uses a hardcoded 1.2.0 schema version.

Proposal

Use wingetcreate in the CI pipeline to handle package updates to winget. It'll always use the latest schema version and make improvements to the manifest for better readability.

Workflow

Reference workflow file that can be used for this repo

    name: Publish winget
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
    - name: Sync winget-pkgs fork
      run : gh repo sync lutzroeder/winget-pkgs -b master
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PUBLISH_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    - name: Submit package to Windows Package Manager Community Repository
      run: |
        $packageId = "LutzRoeder.Netron"
        $gitToken = "${{ secrets.PUBLISH_GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

        # Fetching latest release from GitHub
        $github = Invoke-RestMethod -uri "https://api.github.com/repos/lutzroeder/netron/releases"
        $targetRelease = $github | Select-Object -First 1
        $installerUrl = $targetRelease | Select-Object -ExpandProperty assets -First 1 | Where-Object -Property name -match 'Netron-Setup-\d+(\.\d+)*\.exe' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty browser_download_url
        $packageVersion = $targetRelease.tag_name.Trim("v")

        # Update package using wingetcreate
        Invoke-WebRequest https://aka.ms/wingetcreate/latest -OutFile wingetcreate.exe
        .\wingetcreate.exe update $packageId --version $packageVersion --urls "$installerUrl|x86" "$installerUrl|arm64" --submit --token $gitToken

[lutzroeder]

@mdanish-kh can you recommend a fix that would not require taking a dependency on wingetcreate.exe which runs only on Windows machines and adds additional complexity and dependencies to the build.

[mdanish-kh]

Well, the manual fix would be to use the latest schema version when it rolls out for winget. The ManifestVersion currently used is 1.2.0, you can bump that to 1.6.0 in all yaml files to fix Manifest-Version-Deprecated