How to install local zips via scoop?

[goyalyashpal]

Hi!

• I do lots of "installs" of zips lately (see note below), and was thinking of making myself a custom install-like script.
• but now i am thinking if it would be possible to utilize scoop to install zips too?

i have wandered around a bit here, and

• it seems that it would require creating app manifests (what tools do you use to create new app manifests for scoop? #5829) for each zip,
• but as a zip installs are essentially static process (or maybe i am forgetting what dynamic decisions i take there 😅), namely:
  • extract
  • move: to particular dir
  • find the .exe files
  • create shortcut .lnk in start-programs dir: "$ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/"
  • create a symlink in some bin dir which is added to $PATH
• so, in theory, if the update etc aspect is left out, then the installation can be generalized for any arbitrary (reasonably compliant) local zip package, right?

P.S:

the backslashes in paths in powershell scripts suck big time, readability nightmare.

https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/blob/02f77cc858d31f880cb6f2802cd1c7a76fbf0ec8/bucket/librewolf.json#L17-L46

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Kinda verbose backstories:

on "installs":

• i encountered install (from GNU coreutils) some weeks ago, and
• i was amazed that huh, all an install is just that, putting files ('lib', 'man', 'bin', etc) in proper corresponding directories
• it's the bloatware os-es concept of self-running executables & start-menu-app-drawers and whatnot which messed or covered that up.

rest moved in separate discussion

[goyalyashpal]

i just realised that most all apps that scoop operate on are zips themselves lol.

but yeah, the manifest files contain specific fields like:

• name, description, version,
• update link,
• {pre, post} x {install, update} settings, persist settings
• etc etc

so, maybe if those things are omitted, then the left-behind logic is pretty static 🤔 😅 😄.
this can be verified by glossing over on existing manifest .json files

[goyalyashpal]

found one more solution on similar lines and dedicated to doing mostly just that: get latest version of artifact from specified github repo on the spot

eget.

found from: https://www.ii.com/scoop-windows-package-manager/#_apps_i_manage_with_scoop

[goyalyashpal]

• Manifests with relative paths (feature) #444 (comment)

[goyalyashpal]

closing as i do not use any such local zips yet which:

• can't be fetched from online
• and require such elaborate installs like shims/shortcuts etc

oh wait... i forgot auto-hotkey compiled-scripts...

umh, still.. closing as duplicate. see the above shared links for existing issue for this request.
it says that you can specify full file paths and it works.