Support installing .zip files

[denelon]

I want to be able to have winget install apps inside of .zip files.

Related to:

• Support installing .zip files winget-cli-restsource#117

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

[markrussinovich]

This would enable Winget to support all the Sysinternals tools.

[aclinick-zz]

What would we want to happen here? specify in the yaml where we want the folder to be unzipped to? Or ask the user where to unzip to?

[denelon]

microsoft/winget-pkgs#174

[bitcrazed]

@aclinick - Installing ZIP files could also help support the very long tail of stand-alone and other common tools & utilities, esp. command-line tools like curl, and others that are distributed via ZIP.

Have reached-out to curl re. signing their tools and building an MSI/MSIX.

[utybo]

This would be great! Gradle has always required a package manager on Windows (I'm currently using it with Scoop) and having it on winget would be fantastic, but it's a .zip file.

Also, wouldn't zip files (and standalone .exe apps) require some more complicated setup steps that would have to be described in winget's YAML file? e.g. adding things to PATH, creating a desktop link, creating a Start menu entry etc.

[zuozishi]

This would be great! Gradle has always required a package manager on Windows (I'm currently using it with Scoop) and having it on winget would be fantastic, but it's a .zip file.

Also, wouldn't zip files (and standalone .exe apps) require some more complicated setup steps that would have to be described in winget's YAML file? e.g. adding things to PATH, creating a desktop link, creating a Start menu entry etc.

And environment variable.

[DennisGaida]

I think there should be a default Apps folder maybe within the %USERPROFILE%. Unzipped zips should be per default copied there maybe within a subfolder. The same may also happen for PowerShell Scripts (PS1) and EXEs. An additional parameter may choose another folder where the package is copied to.

[pedrolamas]

I was about to create a manifest for Paint.net when I noticed that .zip is not supported... yet! 🙂

[pashagolub]

A lot of .msi installers are packed into .zip files because you cannot execute .msi downloaded from internet. ;-)

I wanted to add PostgreSQL support, but lack of zip extraction is a problem here.