Add fonts to Microsoft Store

[cglong]

Requirements

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It's annoying having to manually check for and download new versions of a patched font.

Describe the solution you'd like
It'd be great if Nerd Fonts were available for installation and auto-update via the Microsoft Store.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Occasionally checking for updates to the fonts I use, or perhaps setting up something like RSS to monitor changes to the repo.

Additional context
N/A

[Finii]

Is Choko not working for you? (I have never used it.)

[Finii]

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=nerd

[cglong]

Good find! I personally prefer Scoop over Chocolatey, and I see now there's an official bucket containing these fonts 🙂

This definitely helps address the problem as listed in the issue, but I personally think the Microsoft Store would be more advantageous, due to its ubiquity and built-in support for autoupdates.

[Finii]

Well ...

This project here 'just' creates the patched fonts.
Currently all packaging is done by volunteers / people who like one particular packaging system.

And as you can see from the following image, ... that can go a bit slow. Note that 2.2.2 has been released beginning of September and 2.2.1 in August 2022.

This is not criticism of the Scoop maintainers, it just shows how lagging it can be.

At the moment these are the (3rd party) packaging systems I'm aware of:

• Homebrew casks ... https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-fonts
• AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=nerd-font&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go
• Arch https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=nerd-font&maintainer=&flagged=
• Scoop https://github.com/matthewjberger/scoop-nerd-fonts
• Chocolatey https://github.com/sumo300/chocolatey-nerd-fonts
• Nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/data/fonts/nerdfonts/update.sh

None of which are directly controlled by Nerd Fonts, but by enthusiasts. Often manually it seems.
I'm currently working on one of them to become part of the automated Nerd Fonts release process (#1008), but that takes considerable amounts of time (and partly I already regret starting 1008, as that keeps me from finishing v2.3.0)

Of course Nerd Fonts could be added to the MS Store. Some enthusiast could set that up. You suggest adding it the Nerd Fonts 'core', which is certainly better (because prompt updates help reducing Issue reports) - but a lot of work. I personally never ever (want to) use the Store [1]. I have a Windows box or two (running in a rack), but usually I do not work on them (one hosts just a Gitlab runner for testing my (day work) stuff compiling on 'obscure' systems ;), the other is used solely to reproduce "Nerd Fond Issues on Windows"). And then the Store will be some kind of 'closed stuff', while all packagers work on open source principles. How well will it interface to Github actions?

These are all no 'no go's, but the barrier is quite high.

That would at least take someone who explains how it works and maybe helps to implement it.

[1] The only exception is the excellent Windows Terminal, but I always cry out in frustration because it bundles a font, and I can not (easily) remove the font alone. I want to be the person in charge of the fonts on the system, and this Store stuff breaks that. Or I'm too dumb :-)

P.S. Regarding 1008/Homebrew: I also do not use MacOS, and I have even more limited access to MacOS boxes than Windows boxes. Just saying to prevent: You only support what you love.

[Finii]

Thanks for the idea.
I have no clue how to do that, as detailed above.
Closing this for now.

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