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…e installer first, the archive second A portable package cannot have a Start menu shortcut - the manifest has no field for one and WinGet makes none - so a WinGet install of the window could be started from a terminal only. The window's manifest now lists the Windows installer first and the archive second. A fresh install takes the installer: Program Files, the shortcut, the folder on PATH once. The archive stays, without a scope, for --scope user and for an install made before the package had the installer, which WinGet upgrades only as the kind it is. WinGet knows the installed program by the installer's UpgradeCode. The command line keeps its own template, and its manifests and Chocolatey package render byte for byte as before. The renderer takes the installer's name and UpgradeCode from build_msi.py, refuses a checksum file without the installer's line when it renders WinGet, and renders one feed with --only. The packages job renders the latest release --only chocolatey, because releases before the installer have none. The window's Chocolatey install leaves alone a shortcut of the same name that starts a program outside the package - the installer makes exactly that one, and taking it over would let the Chocolatey uninstall delete it - and replaces one whose target is gone. The packages job asks both on a runner. Guards read the WinGet manifests as YAML, each installer with the fields WinGet gives it. The fixture carries an installer line v0.4.0 never had. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe renderer can target WinGet or Chocolatey independently. WinGet rendering requires the window installer checksum and produces an MSI entry before the archive entry. Chocolatey installation now preserves an existing shortcut when its target exists outside the package. ChangesPackage rendering and installation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Suggested labels: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The WinGet and Chocolatey packaging changes look sound. A user's existing Start menu shortcut can be lost in one narrow case, and the upgrade guidance overstates a failure for the installer. Both fixes are small and can be made before or soon after merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 12 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Resolution Validate Full details: System Changes Are ReversibleExplanation The new WinGet manifest lists the machine-scoped WiX installer first, so a fresh default install invokes the MSI. The MSI definition writes two HKLM registry values and adds the install folder to the machine PATH. The PR activates these changes through the new manifest, although the MSI source itself is unchanged. The available cleanup is tied to MSI uninstall; the code does not save and restore the original state on app stop, close, crash, or next start, and it provides no visible control for that lifecycle. This meets the check's system-state condition and does not meet its reversibility requirements. Resolution To pass this check, do not expose an installer that makes these registry or machine-PATH changes unless it saves the original values before changing them, restores them on stop, app close, crash, and next start, limits changes to the scope the user selected, and provides a visible way to stop and restore all changes. Otherwise, remove or replace the system-state changes in the installer.
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🟡 Minor · Limit the failed-upgrade warning to archive installs. · README.md:107-111
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winLimit the failed-upgrade warning to archive installs.
The new MSI is the first installer for a fresh WinGet window install. This paragraph still says WinGet stops halfway whenever the program is running. Lines 142-150 describe a different MSI outcome: the upgrade can complete and require a restart. Identify this warning as the portable archive behavior, and state the MSI outcome separately. As per path instructions, “Check that documentation matches the actual code in this PR.”
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Review comments at @packaging/chocolatey/tools/chocolateyinstall.window.ps1.in:
- Around line 54-56: Update the shortcut replacement logic around $target and
$other to preserve existing shortcuts when target lookup fails or returns an
empty path. Replace a shortcut only when its target is nonempty and either
missing or inside $toolsDir; keep shortcuts with nonempty targets outside the
package unchanged.
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Review comments at @packaging/README.md:
- Around line 107-111: Update the WinGet upgrade warning in the README to
identify the partial-failure behavior as specific to portable archive installs,
and distinguish it from the MSI upgrade outcome already described separately.
Ensure the wording matches the installer behavior in this PR.
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… too, and the README tells the archive from the installer The window's Chocolatey install took over a Start menu shortcut whose target is empty - a shortcut to a shell item answers with an empty path - and the uninstall then deleted the replacement, so the original was lost. The uninstall already leaves such a shortcut alone, and the install now does the same, with the same sentence. The packages job asks it on a runner. The README said WinGet stops half way when the program runs. That is the archive. The Windows installer goes ahead and asks for a restart, measured with a tfg command running, not with the window open. A semicolon in a guard's comment is a full stop. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A WinGet install of the window could be started from a terminal only: it was a portable package, and a portable package cannot have a Start menu shortcut - the manifest schema has no field for one and WinGet makes none (microsoft/winget-cli#2299). Chocolatey already adds one.
UpgradeCode. The archive stays second, without a scope, for--scope userand for an install made before the package had the installer - WinGet upgrades only within the kind that is installed. The description says how to get the shortcut then. The same shape is in winget-pkgs already (OpenJS.NodeJS:wixandzip/portablein one manifest).UpgradeCodefrombuild_msi.py, refuses a checksum file without the installer's line when it renders WinGet, and renders one feed with--only. No published release has the installer yet, so WinGet renders from the first one that does.ci.yml: thepackagesjob renders the latest release--only chocolatey, and asks a runner both new shortcut cases.Measured on Windows Server 2025 with WinGet 1.29.380 and Chocolatey 2.7.4, with an installer built from the signed v0.3.0 and v0.4.0 archives: a fresh install takes the installer and makes the shortcut; Chocolatey beside it leaves the installer's shortcut, at install and at uninstall; an install of the archive is upgraded as the archive; with the installer alone it cannot be upgraded at all; an upgrade of the installer while
tfgruns ends with "Restart your PC to finish installation." and exit 0, the run going on. Not measurable before a release: WinGet matching the installed program to the package from its source.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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