Does StoreBroker support desktop app PDPs?

[riverar]

Microsoft recently introduced the ability to create PDPs for traditional desktop apps. The backend requires data such as installer return codes, CDN urls, etc. This doesn't appear to be supported by StoreBroker--can someone confirm? Is this on the roadmap?

@HowardWolosky

[HowardWolosky]

StoreBroker is entirely dependent on the Windows Submission API and what it supports.

I've reached out to the Windows Submission API team to get their input on what would happen if a user tried to use API v1 (or v2) against a traditional desktop app PDP. Will report back when I have more info.

[HowardWolosky]

Got a response back. The existing API's that StoreBroker is built on top of (v1 and v2) don't support desktop/win32 apps.
They've created a new API to support those app types which is separate and distinct from the previously existing API's for the other app types (and adding in support for those API's to StoreBroker is a non-trivial amount of additional work).

I'm no longer on the team that maintains StoreBroker, so I can't speak to what the roadmap looks like for if/when that API support will be added.

The Store team wanted me to point out that they have released a GitHub action that is built on top of this new API. As far as I can tell, that action is limited to updating the package and can't do anything with the listing metadata.

[riverar]

@HowardWolosky Thanks, and sorry to see you go. Always enjoyed working with you and StoreBroker.

[HowardWolosky]

@HowardWolosky Thanks, and sorry to see you go. Always enjoyed working with you and StoreBroker.

I'm still here and helping out from time-to-time...it's just moved on to other hands from a primary responsibility perspective.

I've been working on Edge now for the past 2.5 years, and besides occasional upstream commits to Chromium, my public activity on GitHub can sometimes be seen over on PowerShellForGitHub.