Add support for self extracting installers in REST API schema

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by locating the REST API schema definition for installer types and review how existing installer types are represented. Use the related winget-cli issue as context, then verify that the schema accepts selfExtracting as an installer type and run the repository's available validation or test checks.

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Description

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Description of the new feature / enhancement

I'd like to have an installer type for "selfExtracting".

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