CalicosineThe great thing about not looking at code for almost 2.5 years is you notice obvious and silly mistakes due to having extra-fresh eyes. For example: getting the list of manifests twice and not even needing to get the list because the database can give enough of a path hint for everything except really hard-to-find paths but even that can have a slightly-more-efficient way of doing it by just looking for the filename then seeing if the version number we want is in the path.
If for some reason you find that you need it for something and you don't trust it to run bare metal and don't want to/can't use a TPM (whether physical or firmware in the CPU), you can emulate one with "swtpm" and adding an emulated TPM in Virt-Manager. In other news, my stuff like guinget not having the latest features in a released version was eating at me and I'm going to tolerate Windows 11 long enough to get those out, plus it helps for testing.
Updates to my #Windows software is not guaranteed due to the horrible direction #Windows11 is going in. If you wish to have more updates, it may be necessary to fork the stuff that interests you most and continue them that way. If I get bored I might still update something. My plan is to go with C++ on #Linux and #QtQuick for GUI stuff. May shift my Windows focus to Wine and #ReactOS .
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Programs impacted include at least: #guinget , #UXLLauncher , other Windows-only stuff
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I like the idea of using Rust and CXX-Qt instead of just C++ or #Python and #PySide, but the filesize for the qml_minimal example is 4.6 MB or so in Release builds, and I don't like the idea of shipping zip files that are 16 MB or more just for three small programs that don't do much (I'm also uncomfortable with #guinget's package size, but I need the libraries that make up that size for core features, I think #SQLite is the main one).
I had completely forgotten that I already merged everything new and useful for v0.4 in the backports branch back into the main branch and wrote about it on Mastodon in January. Here's the issue I wrote to remind myself of this so I don't have to do the work again: https://codeberg.org/DrewNaylor/guinget/issues/179
Everything new in the v0.3.0.1-backports-from-v0.4 branch has been copied into the main branch where it makes sense, so I don't need it anymore but there may still be some things useful in there so I'll make a tag but there will be no v0.3.0.3.
I wrote more about this on Mastodon here, so I recommend reading it: https://mastodon.online/@DrewNaylor/109638381568815230
Sorry, #guinget doesn't work right now and I'm not sure why. It says it can't find the database and when I first tried it, "source.msix" was only downloaded at 2 KB instead of the 8.1 MB it's supposed to be. Doesn't appear to be a #winget issue because it updated its stuff and didn't complain when I checked for updates. I changed nothing and it broke, even v0.3.0.2-beta doesn't work. Weirdly though I didn't see the window where it extracts the database file so I'm not sure.
I think for #guinget instead of extracting all the manifests, I'm going to just load them directly from the zip file after deleting stuff I don't need to save space and moving it to the usual location. This is similar to what FenPhoenix does with AngelLoader last I knew. Fortunately I can just access entries by name since it's a zip file.
Just decided to work on #guinget this morning and ported over the relevant changes back to the main branch from the #backports one. There won't be an official v0.3.0.3 release, as I'm very tired of these two branches significantly diverging and I want to stop it from getting any worse. What's in the main branch now includes everything that v0.3.0.1 and v0.3.0.2 added (minus stuff for deprecated features) and v0.4 already had...
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