Discussion on the Upcoming v0.5.4 / v0.6.0 Releases

[z-Fng]

It has been nearly a year since the last release. I'm opening this separate thread so we can discuss the upcoming release (#6659) together.

Here is an initial thought from my side: would it be better to release a patch/interim version first (perhaps v0.5.4) without any breaking changes? This would allow us to ship important fixes (e.g., #6439, #6454,#6455,#6534) quickly with minimal impact. Otherwise, having to maintain workarounds in so many places is getting quite painful (e.g.,ScoopInstaller/Main#8290 (comment)). And we need more time to handle these breaking changes (e.g., ScoopInstaller/Main#7965).

By the way, we still have several major long-standing bugs (e.g., #5683) that remain unfixed, and I'm not sure if the maintainers are aware of them.

[God-damnit-all]

Honestly, the change I want to see most is everything switching to using -LiteralPath as much as possible.

[z-Fng]

I think that -LiteralPath isn't used in Scoop-Core simply because the design didn't originally account for wildcards in paths. The fact that it isn't used in the manifest is likely for the sake of simplicity. If you run into trouble, you can file an issue first (if one doesn't already exist). By the way, #6592 is somewhat related.

[God-damnit-all]

I think that -LiteralPath isn't used in Scoop-Core simply because the design didn't originally account for wildcards in paths. The fact that it isn't used in the manifest is likely for the sake of simplicity. If you run into trouble, you can file an issue first (if one doesn't already exist). By the way, #6592 is somewhat related.

Why did you close the discussion? 0.5.4/0.6.0 haven't been released?

[z-Fng]

Closing since no further discussion is expected.