Relevant area(s)
WinGet CLI
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Due to various legacy oddities, especially in Microsoft.Wingetcreate, the vast majority of .msi InstallerUrl-s in Winget-pkgs have the wix InstallerType when they should probably instead have the msi InstallerType.
"Wix" is also not a particularly widely known term among commoners, whereas MSI is somewhat widely known; which will likely cause some minor issues if they ran winget (install|show) (...) --installer-type msi and have it show 0 results.
Proposed technical implementation details
Change wix from being its own InstallerType, to having it be an alias of msi.
Relevant area(s)
WinGet CLI
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Due to various legacy oddities, especially in
Microsoft.Wingetcreate, the vast majority of.msiInstallerUrl-s in Winget-pkgs have thewixInstallerType when they should probably instead have themsiInstallerType."Wix" is also not a particularly widely known term among commoners, whereas MSI is somewhat widely known; which will likely cause some minor issues if they ran
winget (install|show) (...) --installer-type msiand have it show 0 results.Proposed technical implementation details
Change
wixfrom being its own InstallerType, to having it be an alias ofmsi.