How to use Winget?

[cedar lintel]

I was not sure how Winget worked on the backend, but reading this helped. I noticed that it was last updated 5 days ago, with a "beta-9" tag, that does not exist. I understand its up to you all to update this manually, is this something that has fallen to the wayside to focus on other things or just a mishap?

[south sentinel]

its cuz we can't push more stuff to winget atm as we are being rate limited, will update very soon as i am contacting microsoft's winget maintainers about this

[upper ridge]

So i want to start using winget, i use the command winget install --id=CiderCollective.Cider -e and it all seems to work fine, however its installing beta.415 when beta.417 is the latest one. Is there something I'm doing wrong or?

[undone python]

no

WinGet is just delayed because we have to manually update it

difficult to keep up

[upper ridge]

oh i see

makes sense

just wondering if its worth me using winget when i like updating Cider after every couple commits or continue self compiling

[slim quest]

it only makes sense to self compile if there is a specific change you'd like for yourself; besides that just stick to downloading via /branchbuilds

[upper ridge]

Winget seems faster than Branchbuilds even if downloading the exe from the website which is cool

[south sentinel]

its outdated cuz Microsoft only has people checking in all in one time zone

[south sentinel]

well winget uses a silent installer

[upper ridge]

yeah

it just opens a window and i dont have to click anything, it just starts installing right away

much faster than branchbuilds, downloading from the website and self compiling

only downside is its not updated with every commit, so i have to download from the website but even that is still faster

[south sentinel]

its at max 1 day outdated

cuz "Quality Assurance"