Is there any interest from JSoftware in making J available for installation via the Windows Package Manager?
I've been using the Windows Package Manager <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/> (via the command line tool winget) to install applications on Windows for a year or so. It is a welcome improvement on the traditional (for Windows) time-consuming procedure (navigate-to-website, find-download-page, download-software-installer, run-software-installer, configure-software). The number, quality and variety of available Packages <https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests> is compelling. Other programming languages represented are Julia, Python, Scala, Golang, Erlang, Racket, Groovy. From what I can see making a J package available would just involve creating an appropriate manifest (Yaml file describing the current *.exe installer), and submitting that manifest to the winget-pkgs GitHub repo <https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs>. Once the PR is accepted, it would be possible to install J on Windows by simply running `winget Jsoftware.Jlang.9.03` (or similar) from a cmd or Powershell session. If there is any interest (or at least no opposition :-) ), I'd be happy to investigate further. I'm equally happy to leave it for JSoftware to action if preferred. Wishing you all a happy New Year! Ric ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
