Scoop: Add vswhere

[dariusdamalakas]

Please add vswhere to scoop.

PS> scoop install vswhere Couldn't find manifest for 'vswhere'.

vswhere is designed to be a redistributable, single-file executable that can be used in build or deployment scripts to find where Visual Studio - or other products in the Visual Studio family - is located.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere

[rasa]

Try updating scoop first via scoop update, as vswhere is in scoop-extras at https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/blob/master/vswhere.json

[dariusdamalakas]

````
PS > scoop install vswhere
Updating Scoop...
Scoop was updated successfully!
Couldn't find manifest for 'vswhere'.

`````

@rasa do I need to install scoop-extras manually?

Ran again:

PS > scoop update Updating Scoop... Scoop was updated successfully! PS > scoop install vswhere Couldn't find manifest for 'vswhere'.

Am i missing some steps?

[r15ch13]

scoop bucket add extras

[dariusdamalakas]

All works! thank you all.

[rasa]

Sorry, I forgot extras is not enabled by default.

[dariusdamalakas]

@rasa its OK, i did try to look it up in wiki, but could not find any topic about extra or extras, Now that i know it is a bucket, i could find that under buckets section how to install extras : buckets#Installing from other buckets

[rasa]

Does anyone know why all the built-in buckets aren't enabled by default? Or at least a message saying: hey, we found the app you want in this built-in bucket, please run 'scoop bucket add bucket' to enable it.

[refack]

@dariusdamalakas I'm interested in hearing how are you using vswhere this way. I would assume it not that useful without VS2017 installed, while that installs vswhere by default...

[dariusdamalakas]

@refack i'm still am looking into this, but we have a set of gulp tasks which can compile, run and test our services. The idea is to use vswhere to locate msbuild. Not everyone will have VS2017 installed. Nor i think building and running services should rely on having a specific version of IDE installed. In fact, we might end up not using scoop, as that is a new dependency for us to take. vswhere can be installed via nuget too, this is probably what we will end up using.

[refack]

@dariusdamalakas thanks. I forgot about -legacy...