[Feature request] Support for Chocolatey installation on Windows

[jooyoungseo]

For terminal users on Windows, could you please consider supporting Chocolatey installation? This would help streamline the cli installation on Windows.

[cderv]

There is not chocolatey package yet, however there is a scoop installation possible.

Quarto is available in this bucket: https://github.com/cderv/r-bucket#quarto-cli

# Add bucket once 
scoop bucket add r-bucket https://github.com/cderv/r-bucket.git

# install
scoop install quarto

# update
scoop update quarto

Scoop is a package manager for Windows, like chocolatey but with a manifest design.
To install Scoop: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop#installation

This is how I manage the Quarto version of Windows with a very smooth workflow.

[eitsupi]

Would you also consider winget?

[cderv]

Yes I think this could be considered to target a manifest in https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs and maintain it.

[cderv]

Quick update:

• Quarto 1.0.35 is now on Winget : winget show quarto
• Quarto 1.0.35 is now in Scoop extras bucket, which is available by default: scoop info quarto - no more need of a community bucket
• Quarto 1.0.35 is soon to be available on chocolatey. The publication process is a bit tougher than the other with more checks, so it takes longer. I'll close this issue when it is available

[eitsupi]

FYI: winget upgrade quarto does not seem work. microsoft/winget-pkgs#67560

[cderv]

Thanks for the report @eitsupi . I'll have a look. I may have missed some configuration for the upgrade process in winget.

[eitsupi]

The workaround is to exec winget install quarto again.
Thus, there should be little practical problem, but this looks a little odd.

[cderv]

This should now be fixed in winget package repo.

[eitsupi]

It works now. Thanks!

[dpprdan]

@cderv Since quarto releases are built with GHA, it might make sense to publish them to the winget repo with GHA as well? Have you seen https://github.com/vedantmgoyal2009/winget-releaser?

[cderv]

Hi @dpprdan,

yes I have seen this project which if fairly new TBH, so I did not had time to automate new release to winget. It will definitely make sense at some point even if publishing to winget require most of the time manual inspection of the manifest. But this will be interesting so that I am not the only one to know how to publish. Anyway, process is manual for now, but this will be in the todo list.

[dpprdan]

Sounds great. FWIW I have been manually updating manifests with https://github.com/microsoft/winget-create for some time now (for pgAdmin, RStudio and others) and it's been pretty smooth. Essentially I only had issues when I did not understand the manifest specs fully. Let me know if I can help out somewhere.

[jooyoungseo]

@cderv -- I've found that quarto v1.0.35 is now published in choco.

[cderv]

yes it is. thanks for the comment. I wanted to wait to close this issue when I could push last version.
I just pushed 1.0.38 now, it should be available in the coming days. I was blocked by 1.0.35 not validated for a long time while new version was already out.

I still need to improve the automated process for all those bundles (winget choco and all). Currently for choco it is in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-choco-bundle

I am closing this now that everything is in order with chocolatey.

[dpprdan]

@cderv Came across another GHA re winget the other day, maybe this is helpful.
via https://twitter.com/TechWatching/status/1558117992088715264
more details: https://www.techwatching.dev/posts/wingetcreate

[jmgirard]

The chocolatey installation of 1.0.38 has been working great for me. Thanks for the effort of enabling this.

[cderv]

Awesome. Thanks for the feedback @jmgirard !