Detect self extracting installers

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
cli, operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reading related issue 5583 and the wingetcreate repository to locate the installer-detection and manifest-generation entry points. Determine how self-extracting installers should be identified and represented in the WinGet package manifest; done means the tool detects them and produces the appropriate declaration.

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Description

Issue-Feature
Description of the new feature / enhancement

I'd like for wingetcreate to be able to detect self-extracting installers so they can be declared in the WinGet package Manifest.

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