Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 21 months ago

#6388 new enhancement

Please release as MSIX. — at Version 11

Reported by: BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART Owned by:
Priority: Nice to Have Milestone: Backlog
Component: Build & Packages Keywords:
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Description (last modified by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART)

"http://docs.microsoft.com/windows/msix" and "http://github.com/microsoft/msix-packaging" and "http://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/installer/windows/installer/MSIX.html" provide relevant information.

Utilisation of MSIX would allow installation to be much more easy for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, because of "http://docs.microsoft.com/windows/msix/msix-core/msixcore", and for Windows 10 and Windows 11 because of their native support of MSIX.

Utilisation of MSIX would allow installation by pseudo-package-managers that are smiliar to "http://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli" to install packages without the possibility of corruption that execution of the current installer is able to cause every time that the package is replaced during replacement.

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comment:1 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

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comment:2 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

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comment:3 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

Achievement of this would allow me to replace the package that has been submitted for "http://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/35468".

comment:4 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

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comment:5 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

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comment:6 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

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comment:7 by Stan, 2 years ago

Hi there,

I am a bit puzzled by your suggestion. Currently you can install 0 A.D. on Windows using the following methods:

  • by using the installers provided on releases.wildfiregames.com
  • by using the installers provided on itch.io
  • by using Chocolatey.org the package manager
  • by using the SVN version on a specific revision

The installer is created using NSIS, by a macOS VM, so I'm pretty sure you cannot build an APPX there.

comment:8 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

APPX is not MSIX, because APPX is the precursor to MSIX. Additionally, "http://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/msix/how-to-use-msix-on-a-mac/m-p/966576/highlight/true#M1658" explains how to create MSIX packages via macOS.

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comment:9 by Silier, 2 years ago

Milestone: Backlog

comment:10 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

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Summary: Please do release as MSIX format.Please release as MSIX.

comment:11 by BEEDELL ROKE JULIAN LOCKHART, 2 years ago

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