Support for installers that install application as a Portable Application

[KaranKad]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

There are some applications like GNU/Emacs and TorProject/TorBrowser which come in a installer but install as a portable application. Because of that winget is not able to keep track of them.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

[denelon]

@KaranKad how is this different from:

• Support for installation of portable/standalone apps #182

[KaranKad]

It's somewhat similar to it but instead of standalone exe's or zip files they come packaged in a installer and by default install in a specific directory. Tor browser for example installs in desktop folder which isn't great.

[denelon]

I wasn't aware of these. Thanks for the specific example.

How would you like to see this happen?

What kinds of arguments might need to be used or added?
"--location" for example.

What kinds of settings make sense (if any)?

[KaranKad]

I think winget needs to have a Program Files folder of its own where these types of packages should be installed. These installers do have location switch do they could be redirected there. Other thing that can be done is to treat installers as archive package similar to zip, 7z etc and just extract the application from it an place it in winget's Program Files folder.