Publish to microsoft store in msix format

[soredake]

The associated forum post URL from https://forum.rclone.org

What is your current rclone version (output from rclone version)?

❯ rclone --version
rclone v1.62.2

• os/version: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 22H2 (64 bit)
• os/kernel: 10.0.22621.1555 Build 22621.1555.1555 (x86_64)
• os/type: windows
• os/arch: amd64
• go/version: go1.20.2
• go/linking: static
• go/tags: cmount

What problem are you are trying to solve?

Publishing rclone to microsoft store in msix format will make installation/updating/uninstall very easy.

Example benefits of msix package format: felixrieseberg/windows95#221 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/overview#key-features

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

rclone should be published to microsoft store in msix format

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[ncw]

You can now install rclone with winget on Windows. Is that not sufficient?

[soredake]

@ncw no, winget can't auto-update apps and requires admin rights to create alias which is annoying (microsoft/winget-cli#2802)

[Animosity022]

It's a single binary that you can self update. Not sure how much easier it can get than that.

[soredake]

It's a single binary that you can self update. Not sure how much easier it can get than that.

I don't want to update anything manually, stores/package managers invented to do this automatically.

[Animosity022]

I don't want to update anything manually, stores/package managers invented to do this automatically.

Schedule rclone self-update when you want to update it.

[soredake]

I don't want to update anything manually, stores/package managers invented to do this automatically.

Schedule rclone self-update when you want to update it.

I don't want to schedule/manually update it, i just want to install & forget and have it auto-updated in background.

[Animosity022]

I don't want to schedule/manually update it, i just want to install & forget and have it auto-updated in background.

I'm just giving you a solution now so you can get what you want. It's incredibly easy to install and update.

If you'd like to support and maintain the MSIX, by all means, submit a PR and help out :)

[ncw]

@soredake I don't use Windows so I don't really understand the differences between the installers, but if you wanted to create an MSIX that would be great :-)