Enhancement: Ability to install act package into Windows OS (via winget for example).

[omonimus1]

Describe feature

It would be great to download and use this package into Windows OS.
Distribute it via winget (official windows package manager) will allow more developers to use act.

In terms of advertisement, it would be great also from the https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/act#default redirect to winget for windows user (as many tutorials about act already redirect directly to brew page).

[catthehacker]

Distribute it via winget (official windows package manager) will allow more developers to use act.

winget (https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli | https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs) requires packages to be self-executable installers, we don't have one and most likely won't have for a long time as goreleaser doesn't support this type of artefacts. It would also require us to sign the artefacts with a trusted certificate so Windows won't complain.

Requires: microsoft/winget-cli#140

In terms of advertisement, it would be great also from the formulae.brew.sh/formula/act#default redirect to winget for windows user (as many tutorials about act already redirect directly to brew page).

Don't think that is possible nor that we should do that. Would be better to ask authors of said articles to point to our README / installation page in Wiki.

[alanlivio]

It is a very interesting feature.

[phillip-haydon]

@catthehacker it looks like issue 140 was merged and closed in September. Could this now be added to winget?

[Arthapz]

microsoft/winget-pkgs#93675 i've done a PR, maybe need some reviewing (for publishers URLs)

[Arthapz]

ah the package is done, but they can't merge it because of microsoft/winget-pkgs#87300
they'll merge it when it's done

so it's let a lot of time for reviewing the meta-infos https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/93675/files#diff-b8e3d9e7cc98ed3ac1070cb7663345f48849ff77d7bfe978b5424890c52e091f

[sitiom]

microsoft/winget-pkgs#93675 i've done a PR, maybe need some reviewing (for publishers URLs)

@Arthapz Please check my review on your PR.

Also, once the PR is merged, Winget Releaser would have to be set up in this repo for automatic package updates.

[Arthapz]

done

[Arthapz]

My PR has been merged onto winget, act should be be installable by winget now

[sitiom]

The Winget package is currently outdated, and there is a blocking issue for Winget Releaser: vedantmgoyal9/winget-releaser#82. Will PR the releaser workflow once that is resolved.