Trouble with new lo-build

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Jürgen, *,

On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM Juergen Funk <j-funk at outlook.de> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, But that is not a lightweight installer you can offer people to
> > download to get "the necessary stuff".
> > I don't think there's an easy way for that/none that's easier than a
> > winget configuration file
> > and re latest version I meant the latest release of VS2022 for
> > example, while there are dedicated LTS channels to use e.g. 17.10.x
> > instead of 17.14.x, those also require additional commandline flags to
> > run, so again not easier than to run the installer and pass the
> > vsconfig file..
> Ne, I give up, it seems that I am too stupid to convey this to you in an understandable way.
> I just wanted to point out a way how we could have control over VS, despite the license agreement from MS,

IANAL, but all the documents I read about that read about intranet or
a share in your company or something like that, even if there's a
network based method, it still doesn't sound to me like it could be
offered over the internet.

and from the other mail:

"This is only relevant for the first installation, we could make a
script that installs VS and cygwin or wsl for example."

That already exists, that is the winget configuration method. But that
suffers from the mentioned chicken-and-egg problem. the files for that
are in the repo, thus you need git, and git-bash is provided by Visual
Studio...

"winget configure -f .config/configuration.winget" – that will install
visual studio with the required packages

And to install the other deps as well there's the
.config/admin_java_and_deps.winget and .config/user_steps.winget files
- those aren't part of the default config (but could be) since not
everyone wants to install JDK or use wsl for example, so those steps
can be tweaked before running them. Unfortunately there's no include
mechansim for winget config files, but the steps can be split up to be
more modular – balancing "runnning more winget configure commands"
with "no need to edit the config files to adjust"

ciao
Christian