Creating and using manifests

[huskylogic]

Looking through the manifests I found a lot of them that were updated many years ago. When you create a manifest, is there something in that manifest that says go and check for newer versions so in a sense you don't have to create another manifest when a new version comes out? For example if I created one for the current version of GIMP that is out which is 3.0.2. would that manifest know how to search and see if a newer version came out, or would I have to create a new manifest when version 3.0.3 came out?

[Trenly]

Unfortunately there isn't an easy way to detect new versions. Some users have set up automations for packages they use frequently, but either way, a new manifest still has to be submitted for each version.

The best way to ensure new versions are available in WinGet is for the ISV (publisher) of the software to add a step to their deployment process to automatically submit a new manifest to WinGet. This is relatively straightforward, as once a manifest is in the repository, their deployment pipelines can just call wingetcreate update with the correct parameters to automatically submit the new manifest.