[sword-devel] Fwd: [sword-support] Please add Sword Project to Winget on Windows

[Kristof Szabo]

BibleTIme is available now in winget

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/commit/9de0c128

Kind regards,
Kristof

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 2:58 AM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> winget is pretty great. It works about like you'd expect from any other
> package manager. And it has a very large collection of libraries and
> software already available for it. As for how to add to it, I haven't the
> slightest idea as creating packages for Windows is not a target I've
> undertaken.
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 7:03 PM Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>
> wrote:
>
>> For those who build packages for Windows.  We received this request on
>> sword-support.  It sounds interesting.
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: [sword-support] Please add Sword Project to Winget on Windows
>> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 16:12:57 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: southpawami at yahoo.com <southpawami at yahoo.com>
>> <southpawami at yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: southpawami at yahoo.com <southpawami at yahoo.com>
>> <southpawami at yahoo.com>
>> To: sword-feedback at crosswire.org <sword-feedback at crosswire.org>
>> <sword-feedback at crosswire.org>
>>
>> Sir or Ma'am,
>>
>> I had a catastrophic fail on Windows resulting in a fully reset operating
>> system recently. I looked for some "newer" option for installations and
>> there was an option called winget in powershell 7, and likely earlier(You
>> can disable powershell 2, uninstall the microsoft store powershell 5 and
>> just use powershell 7 and winget - https://winstall.app/ ). It's
>> amazing. I installed all the software I could through winget, and I have
>> found software dependencies update through winget easily(including
>> dependencies from software installed by Steam).
>>
>> However, I also found that very little Bible software is using winget
>> which is why I'm requesting this. There's BPBible, which requires additions
>> separately downloaded through a web browser and Logos 9. Other than than,
>> there's nothing Bible there. There's not even Bible memory apps.
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