sangsang90 Posts: 2 22/05/2020	sangsang90 Posts: 2 In recent Build event, MS introduce their native and open package manager. I would like to raise awareness about it. First, I think we could add SyMenu into their manifest and more users for the app I think we could hook into their package manifest here or auto pull into SPS package From their introduction, each package per pull request would be checked by Window Smartcheck for treat And we could take a peak in winget if there anything we could reuse
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sangsang90 Posts: 2 22/05/2020	sangsang90 Posts: 2 Also I think I prefer Symenu GUI compare to list of commands
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274 23/05/2020	Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274 MS does not conceive something like program portability because program portability is evil Imagine the IT manager of your office or school who is not able to control what you are executing in his machines... it's a nightmare for him. And MS is still extremely devoted to the businness/school environments needs, even in a period when they are opening their codes, they are supporting open source projects and communities, they are even opening up to Linux.... Even today a project like SyMenu, that is able to create a portable environment regardless the hosting PC policies, is the enemy. And in fact if you check the Windows Package Manager yaml documentation you can read this: InstallerType: string # enumeration of supported installer types (exe, msi, msix)If you don't include zip, rar, 7zip, it means you are sending a clear message to the world. Anyway, since SyMenu has got an exe installer (it's not a true installer, it's a 7zip solid package) we can do an attempt to add a manifest for it and we'll see. The SyMenu exe package doesn't add itself to the Windows Start menu and to the Control Panel Program removal snippet, so I fear it'll be rejected but who cares... I compiled a manifest file that you can find below. I can't assure it's perfect but it can be a good point to start. Is there someone who can take care of it? I have no time to check the MS Code of Conduct, the contributing guidelines, respond to PR and so on. If anyone is willing to help we can try it. Id: UGMFree.SyMenu Name: SyMenu Version: 6.11.7419 Publisher: UGMFree Author: UGMFree License: Copyright UGMFree LicenseUrl: https://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuManual.aspx#Licence MinOSVersion: 10.0.0.0 Homepage: https://www.ugmfree.it Description: A portable menu launcher and a Start Menu replacer that is even able to automatically index any application installed on the host pc. It's integrated with a large suite of freeware programs. Tags: "SyMenu,freeware,portable,start menu" InstallerType: exe Installers: - Arch: x64, x86 Url: https://www.ugmfree.it/Download/SyMenu/SyMenuPackage.exe Sha256: C7D1B5ADAFD55E096A86CEFA19C7CAB821C864AFC6D463B474DD50105FD8C174 Switches: Silent: -o[destinationPath] -y
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