Simplify installation process for windows by using winget

[asilverman]

What is the version of your ORAS CLI

No response

What would you like to be added?

Currently, the installation process for Windows is pretty involved...

winget-cli is a package manager for windows and it is pre-installed in most windows distributions. I would really like to be able to install oras client by leveraging winget

Why is this needed for ORAS?

It reduces the barriers for adoption and makes installation simpler

Are you willing to submit PRs to contribute to this feature?

• Yes, I am willing to implement it.

[asilverman]

I implemented a stop gap solution easily, see here: microsoft/winget-pkgs#104322

You can also embed a publish step in your GitHub Workflows to update the winget manifest so that you don't have to think about it anymore, see here for an example:

• https://github.com/vedantmgoyal2009/winget-releaser
• Auto generate manifests for newer versions microsoft/winget-pkgs#500 (comment)
• https://github.com/russellbanks/Komac

[FeynmanZhou]

@asilverman Awesome! I just tested installing ORAS v1.0.0 on Win11 using Winget and it works fine!
We will add this installation method to the ORAS installation guide.

[sajayantony]

Should we close this issue since the instructions have been merged or are there more follow up items?

[asilverman]

@sajayantony I would suggest that a CI/CD step is added to the release pipeline of ORAS to update the package when a new version is released, this will not happen otherwise

[sajayantony]

winget releaser seems like a nice option then. This isn’t currently triaged or assigned and maybe we can queue this up in the next patch update.

[FeynmanZhou]

@asilverman Good idea. I think we may need to add a release-winget/yml to ORAS GitHub Actions to cover Winget package update when a new version is released.

cc @oras-project/oras-cli

[amands98]

I can add the github actions, but I may need someone to create secrets and other admin items.

[github-actions]

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[qweeah]

It's completed and future improve can be found in #1025