Support installing other archive formats

[rollingmoai]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Continuation of #140. See #140 (comment):

I agree that supporting other compression methods (zstd, lzma, etc.) and archive formats (7z, tar, etc.) is good and should eventually be added. Zips are the most common, so supporting just them is a good first step and I think it's better to have it ASAP and only after that think about other formats.

Other than .zip, most other software binaries are only available by either .7z and .rar. Examples:

• https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/releases/download/v6.2.6/hashcat-6.2.6.7z
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/release/mpv-0.35.1-x86_64.7z/download
• https://github.com/RussellJerome/UnrealModLoader/releases/download/v2.2.1/UnrealModLoader_V2.2.1.rar

Hopefully .7z and .rar gets added first, they're quite common. Other archive formats such as .tar, .gz, .zstd etc. can be added soon.

Proposed technical implementation details

No response

I support this.
Would like to be able to install mpv using winget or git-versions of gyan's ffmpeg

[mloskot]

The lack of .tar.gz support is a blocker for packaging Kubernetes kustomize tool, see microsoft/winget-pkgs#101705 and microsoft/winget-pkgs#101695

[superusercode]

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringing-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-11-unlocking-a-new-era-of-productivity-for-customers-and-developers-with-windows-copilot-and-dev-home/

We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows.

Will winget be able to use this functionality when it releases?

[superusercode]

@denelon I know this is really early but would winget be able to use the new archive support in windows 11 when it releases? I'm not sure how it will be implemented but I'd like to think it will be added to the existing APIs.

[denelon]

@superusercode yes, we want to see if it's possible to take advantage of the new features in libarchive to support more formats. As soon as we have time to dig into the new Insider version of Windows and figure out the right way to handle this in earlier versions of Windows (back compatibility is tricky) we want this capability.