Windows distribution via scoop

[jonesbusy]

What feature do you want to see added?

The CLI is distributed by Homebrew which support Linux (and Windows users with WSL2) and MacOSX.

It would be great to not let Windows user left behind and allow to distribute the CLI via a windows package manager.

I woulds suggest scoop because it's very similar to Homebrew (a Tap is a Bucket, a Formala is an app manifest)

It also work with JRelease : https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/reference/packagers/scoop.html

Good first issue if anyone is interested by packaging

Upstream changes

No response

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

No response

[CodexRaunak]

Hey @jonesbusy I am interested in working on this one

[jonesbusy]

Sure feel free to open a PR

[gounthar]

What about Chocolatey?
It is also supported by JReleaser.
https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/reference/packagers/chocolatey.html

That's what I use with my Windows machine.

[jonesbusy]

The point with Chocolatey is packages need to be packaged and pushed to https://push.chocolatey.org/ (A bit like maven central). So it means managing an API key

With scoop it's downloaded through anywhere (a bit like Homebrew) so we can reuse the uber jar already

What we miss is "just" creating the app manifest and updating the jrelease configuration

I think scoop is much simplier for now