winget-pkgs-index

Open-source package index of Windows Package Manager repository

Why?

WingetIntune uses winget to search the correct installer to publish to Intune. It had a dependency on winget (thus making it platform dependent) and it was slow. This project is a simple index of all packages in the winget repository. It is updated every 6 hours through a github action.

Usage

Use this uri as index for WingetIntune

https://github.com/svrooij/winget-pkgs-index/raw/main/index.json

Issues

Since the winget community does not force semantic versioning, there are some issues with the versioning. The code that is used to find the latest version for a package is defined as follows. If you have a better solution, please let me know, or send a PR for the winget-intune.

internal static class VersionsExtensions
{
    internal static string? GetHighestVersion(this IEnumerable<string> versions)
    {
        if (versions is null || !versions.Any()) { return string.Empty; }
        return versions.Max(new VersionComparer());
    }
}

internal class VersionComparer : IComparer<string>
{
    public int Compare(string? x, string? y)
    {
        if (x is null && y is null) { return 0; }
        if (x is null) { return -1; }
        if (y is null) { return 1; }
        try
        {
            var xVersion = new Version(x);
            var yVersion = new Version(y);
            return xVersion.CompareTo(yVersion);
        }
        catch
        {
            return x.CompareTo(y);
        }

    }
}