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The Windows installer was able to automatically enable the Windows features for WSL or HyperV when they were not already enabled. This PR removes this capability. Having the installer to automatically install the right prerequiste (WSL or HyperV) was helpful as users won't have to do it manually to use Podman after the installation. But it also made the code of installer more complicated as it needed to manage the installation of these OS features and a reboot. And we weren't able to automatically test these scenarios that required a reboot. In other words the Windows installer, that merely just extracted some files in a folder, required, to support the installation of WSL and HyperV, an advanced knowledge of WiX toolkit and of the Windows Installer SDK, plus contributors-time to manually test the scenarios that require a reboot. We decided to remove this capability based on the following reasons: - We had a couple of regressions in the last month that were hard to analyse and fix (#24624 and #24735) - Podman maintainers currently have a scarce knowledge of the Windows Installer and there is no plan to invest in that - Manually installing WSL or HyperV is not hard (e.g. run `wsl --install`) and are features that admins can manage on their fleet of Windows machines - Competitors such as Docker Desktop don't automatically install these components - Podman `machine init` currently verifies if WSL and HyperV are installed and guide the user to install them when they are not Signed-off-by: Mario Loriedo <mario.loriedo@gmail.com> |
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| remote | ||
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| snapcraft | ||
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| win-installer | ||
| dependabot-dance | ||
| dependencies.txt | ||