Scoop-extras: Un-deprecate Nightlies bucket?

[rasa]

In my opinion, anything that has a version of “nightly”, or that updates daily, or more often, should live in the (currently unused) nightlies bucket. I would think the following would be candidates to move there:

Main bucket:

1. docker-nightly
2. glslang-nightly
3. jar2app
4. jx
5. ffmpeg-nightly

Extras bucket:

1. cheat-engine
2. firefox-nightly
3. jdownloader
4. lightshot
5. oneget
6. rust-msvc-nightly
7. rust-nightly
8. uplay
9. vscode-insiders
10. vscode-insiders-portable
11. watchman-nightly

_Originally posted by @rasa in https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/pull/2814#issuecomment-528957813_

[niheaven]

I've asked in Discord, it's reasonable to use nightlies.

[rasa]

The other option would be to use the versions bucket, and name them all _app_-nightly.

[linsui]

Any update? I want to add a nightly app, but I don't know which bucket to use?

[rasa]

You could throw it in nightlies if you want. I think we are eventually going to need to trim down extras by spinning off select groups of apps, so might as well start now.

I would move forward on this idea, if a consensus formed.

[linsui]

I would like to do it. But Nightlies doesn't get automated updates...

[niheaven]

Yes, nightlies needn't autoupdate.

I think we are eventually going to need to trim down extras by spinning off select groups of apps, so might as well start now.

We could make extras as meta bucket, that when user adds this bucket they actually adds several related sub-buckets. But why we need to trim down this bucket? A large one is difficult to clone, that's the only shortcoming, I thought. It is autoupdated by Excavator, and most manifests in it is well maintained.

[rasa]

My thought is that we may want to eventually break up extras into logical groups to allow us to divy up the maintenance. Perhaps we break it up like Debian does, and have free and non-free (non-open source) buckets. Or we could go even further, and have open (open-source), free (free but not open source), and non-free (shareware/proprietary).

[linsui]

Maybe some apps which use commit sha as version (for example, zeronet) should also be put in nightlies?

mpv-git is also somehow a nightly app.

psiphon is not a nightly app but we can't get its version before downloading it.