Can I make my own winget for Windows 7?

[pybash1]

Do I really even need a description I think the title is enough! Anyways still can I make my own version of winget-cli for Windows 7?

[ItzLevvie]

I don't think you can because source.msix (which is what I believe winget-cli uses to fetch manifests' information from the repository) is only supported on Windows 10 and above. You'll have to upgrade to the latest version of Windows (which is currently 10) for that.

You'll have to code everything from scratch if you wanted to do what you want to do; i.e. extracting a file from source.msix, parsing the Public.db file, and more; but even then - some apps ship as .AppxBundle and .Msix file types which are not supported on Windows 7.

[pybash1]

Ok, Thanks solves my query! But could Microsoft build it then?

[ItzLevvie]

Windows 7 has reached end-of-life for consumers except for commercial customers and, right now, Windows 10 has billions of people running the latest version of the OS and newer technologies will always require newer versions of Windows, therefore, backporting newer technologies to older versions of Windows can result into various technical restrictions and unneeded debt for Microsoft.

You could take a look at Scoop or Chocolately if you wanted something as close or even better to winget-cli on Windows 7. Chocolatey's system requirements are detailed here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/setup#requirements and Scoop's system requirements are detailed here: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop#requirements

[pybash1]

I know I was just kidding! Why would Microsoft add support for an end-of-life product and when a new version of Windows is about to launch!

[TinyRobby]

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