Add notes how to install Spring Boot CLI on Windows using Scoop

[andreysaksonov]

App manifest for Spring Boot CLI is available in scoop-extras now (ScoopInstaller/Extras#838)

[philwebb]

Thanks for the PR. I'm not a Windows user so I've not used scoop before. Is it similar to homebrew on the mac?

My only concern with merging this is that we ideally need a way to keep things updated when we release a new version.

We currently have our own homebrew tap repository which means we can immediately update the version on a release. We also have SDKMan which provides an API for us to call when we release a new version.

Perhaps we just need to update our release process to generate the springboot.json file used by scoop so that we can easily submit a PR.

With homebrew we have a template file that gets up updated with each release.

[andreysaksonov]

@philwebb yes, scoop is like homebrew for Windows, "taps" there called "buckets" (example: https://github.com/andreysaksonov/scoop-bucket I used prior to merge of springboot.json to well-known "extras" bucket).

Scoop has autoupdate feature (check "checkver" and "autoupdate" fields here: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/pull/838/files#diff-4837d1242bcd34c44b8e505f5c8ca524R15), so until version pattern of spring-boot-cli on GitHub will change (unlikely) or repository layout will change (unlikely) this manifest should not require any maintenance to get up-to-date spring-boot-cli.

I will have a look to template (it is just resource processed by gradle, right?) and try to deliver the same for scoop.

[philwebb]

@andreysaksonov The checkver and autoupdate fields look interesting thanks.

I will have a look to template (it is just resource processed by gradle, right?) and try to deliver the same for scoop.

Yes, except it's processed by Maven not Gradle.

[andreysaksonov]

Replaced with #12541