PowerShell Modules from PowerShellGet

[Witchilich]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Windows Store apps seems to be in the roadmap, but PowerShell Modules from PowerShellGet should be too.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

For winget to be the one package manager for all our packages it also needs to include PowerShell modules.

[o-l-a-v]

This would be awesome. There's no neat way to keep PowerShell modules updated, which also fixes removing old versions of modules. I've scripted my way around it, but it's sloooow and its not slow anymore. Other alternatives:

• https://github.com/JustinGrote/ModuleFast
• https://github.com/marticliment/UniGetUI

Maybe WinGet could add NuGet v2 ( powershellgallery.com ) and v3 ( nuget.org ) support with the ability to:

1. Install and update PowerShell modules and scripts
2. Handle scopes: user context (not require admin) and system context
3. Optionally install to non-default path, because
   • 2018-10-18 Move PowerShell folder on Windows from ${env:USERPROFILE}\OneDrive\Documents\PowerShell to ${env:USERPROFILE}\.powershell PowerShell/PowerShell#8069
   • 2021-06-09 Let's move PSModulePath out of the documents folder PowerShell/PowerShell#15552
   • 2022-04-07 User context, don't install to %OneDriveCommercial% if OneDrive for Business Known Folder Move (KFM) is enabled PowerShell/PSResourceGet#627
   • 2023-01-12 Get-PSResource does not search in user context environment variable PSModulePath PowerShell/PSResourceGet#889
   • 2023-11-16 Allow to specify custom module path in Install-PSResource PowerShell/PSResourceGet#1494
   • 2024-06-08: Script installation should require less fiddling with PATH PowerShell/PSResourceGet#1661
4. Handle update to PSModulePath environment variable

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Why stop at PowerShell modules and scripts? NuGet Gallery / https://www.nuget.org/ would be cool too.

[denelon]

When we start the deeper work on:

• Add Native PowerShell Support #221

We should consider a mechanism to detect if a newer version of the PowerShell module is available to make it easier to upgrade, and possibly a setting to automatically pull the latest module down when that case is true.