Upgrading available winget version

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Hi,

when installing a new box at home recently I wanted to try to install as many packages as possible using the winget tool. I was happy to discover that crystal was available (CrystalLang.Crystal package) but the version seems pretty old (1.9.2)

I know Windows isn’t a top priority, but later versions seems much more usable on Windows. So my two questions are:

a) Does the core team plan to package newer versions of Crystal for winget?
b) If not, is there some way I can contribute to make that happen?

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We have never released official Crystal packages for Winget nor are there any plans to do so. We’re lacking manpower and expertise on this, so I believe it’s best to leave packaging a job for the community.

Of course we’re happy to help out package maintainers with upstream support.

The existing package is community-maintained but apparently hasn’t seen much love recently. The sources appear to be at winget-pkgs/manifests/c/CrystalLang/Crystal at master · microsoft/winget-pkgs · GitHub and this would likely be the place to push updated release versions. But that exhausts my knowledge about packaging for WinGet.

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Great! I’ll have a look and see if I can setup a PR for the latent version of Crystal.

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Looks like someone beat me to it:

Thank you, github user SpecterShell!

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