Support Windows' .msi format

[suzuki-shunsuke]

Feature Overview

Support unarchiving Windows' .msi format.

Why is the feature needed?

Some packages are distributed by .msi format.

For example, AWS CLI is distributed by .msi format.

• Support aws/aws-cli for masOS + Windows aqua-registry#14005 (comment)

[suzuki-shunsuke]

I'm not familiar with Windows, but it seems .msi files can be unarchived by msiexec command.

https://atmarkit.itmedia.co.jp/ait/articles/0703/02/news130.html
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/msiexec
https://vamdemicsystem.black/windows/%E3%80%90windows%E3%80%91msi%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%82%92%E5%B1%95%E9%96%8B%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B
http://nanoappli.com/blog/archives/478

/a: unarchive
/qn: quiet

start /wait msiexec /a hoge.msi targetdir="<absolute path of the destination directory>" /qn

[sheldonhull]

Not sure you want to go down that road. Chocolatey is better for that, as it runs installers/custom scripts. Not at all what what you want from this app.

MSI is an installer, not an executable binary.
Typically, that has an entire instruction set to install and extract to paths.

If they aren't building the aws cli as a standalone binary and are still doing a python distribution then it seems like they are likely bundling the python version and more in the msi. I just looked at the repo and it seems to style be python.

[suzuki-shunsuke]

We could support some formats such as .pkg and .dmg before.

• Is it possible that aqua will support .dmg files in the future? #1706
• Support unarchiving .PKG format for macOS #1803

They included executable files and could be unarchived in AQUA_ROOT_DIR.

I'm not familiar with .msi format, but if aqua could support this format in the same way, it would be fine.

Typically, that has an entire instruction set to install and extract to paths.

If .msi format requires to execute arbitrary external commands, we don't want aqua to run them for security reason.

[suzuki-shunsuke]

I think this is nice to have. I don't think this is important for now because almost packages don't need this feature and this is only for Windows.