Winget! Sources, Winstall, and updates

[iamjonny]

I've been using winget since I discovered it exists, but still using it manually, not done much other than a batch/ps script on launch of a sandbox to get stuff to be able to winget in windows sandbox...

I've just heard of winstall, forget exactly what it does, but whilst looking at powertoys I noticed the latest release (14 hours ago) is not yet available on winget.

What workflows are used by people to update the winget package info?
By that I mean do contributors usually receive notifications that watched repos have new releases (for downloading and managing github applications and packages via winget)

Or is it more automated? Maybe some CI/CD is used to notify or build (the config resources).

I'm wondering, if not already available, what's involved (requirements limitations etc) to make (more/some/all?!) winget packages be up to date.

winget search powertoys #0.77 - latest: 0.78

Thanks!

[denelon]

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