Virtual-environments: Add winget-cli ("App Installer")

[MCOfficer]

Tool information

• Tool name: winget-cli
• Tool license: MIT
• Add or update? Add
• Desired version: 1.0
• Approximate size: probably ~5-10 MB
• If this is an add request:
  
  
  
  • Brief description of tool: Microsoft recently announced winget, a package manager for windows. It fulfills a similar role as choco, apt and others.
  
  
  • URL for tool's homepage: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
  
  

Area for Triage:
Scripting and command line (i hope? really unsure where to fit a package manager.)

Question, Bug, or Feature?:
Feature

Virtual environments affected

• [ ] macOS 10.15
• [ ] Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• [ ] Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• [ ] Windows Server 2016 R2
• [x] Windows Server 2019

Can this tool be installed during the build?
I have not looked into it, since winget-cli is still in preview state. I do not expect you to add it anytime soon, consider this a request for the eventual v1.0. (Feel free to prove me wrong, though :wink: )

[maxim-lobanov]

Thank you for feature request. In general, tool looks good to us but we would like to wait for stable release (v1.0 is going to come on May 2021 based on Roadmap or may be a bit earlier) and install it. Currently, packages base is pretty small and installation looks complicated (build from source code or Microsoft Store).
cc: @alepauly

[MCOfficer]

Is there a reason this can't just stay open until winget comes out of preview? just curious

[maxim-lobanov]

@MCOfficer , we would like to keep opened only those issues that we are planning to work on in next weeks / months to simplify maintenance of this repository. Official release date of this tool is defined as May 2021 based on Roadmap.
If you see that it is ready for pre-installation before, feel free to ping us and reopen this issue

[MCOfficer]

I will try to keep track of it, if i miss it hopefully someone else picks it up. cheers!