Winget-cli: Let WinGet search among issues/prs

Created on 1 Jun 2020  路  2Comments  路  Source: microsoft/winget-cli

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Add an option to search for information of a package in microsoft/winget-pkgs' issues and pull requests.

For contributors, a convenient search from winget's cli could lower the possibility of submitting duplicate manifests.

For users, a search in issues and pull requests could inform them about the status of the package (a new version is available and its install manifest is under review / the requested package is previously available but removed due to some reasons, etc)

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Add a flag to the search command to force search in issues/pull requests.

Automatically search in issues/pull requests if no match is found.

Issue-Feature

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I understand why this could be useful from a maintenance point of view but I don't really see the need for such a feature to be included in the winget cli. It could be solved by a PowerShell, Python or C# program that queries the GitHub API and aggregates the results locally so that one doesn't reach the API query limit.

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I understand why this could be useful from a maintenance point of view but I don't really see the need for such a feature to be included in the winget cli. It could be solved by a PowerShell, Python or C# program that queries the GitHub API and aggregates the results locally so that one doesn't reach the API query limit.

This might make sense for the community repository, but I'm not sure about third-party repositories. It is also possible someone might build a "Tool" for the winget-pkgs repository to search PRs.

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