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

[David Haslam]

I occasionally use Winget on my Windows 11 x64 laptop.

It’s generally OK but sometimes gets things wrong.

Currently it reports Facebook Messenger and Skype as available updates but in reality the updates are actually the installed version of each but the available version package ID is reported incorrectly.

It runs from the command line and works only with Windows 10 & Windows 11.

Most ordinary Windows would not be familiar with the utility.

Best regards

David

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 01:40, Greg Hellings <[greg.hellings at gmail.com](mailto:On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 01:40, Greg Hellings <<a href=)> 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.
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> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 7:03 PM Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
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>> For those who build packages for Windows. We received this request on sword-support. It sounds interesting.
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>> -------- 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>](mailto:southpawami at yahoo.com)
>> Reply-To:	southpawami at yahoo.com [<southpawami at yahoo.com>](mailto:southpawami at yahoo.com)
>> To:	sword-feedback at crosswire.org [<sword-feedback at crosswire.org>](mailto: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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