Support for Chocolatey/NuGet v2 in packages

[Jamie96ITS]

Feature Description

I'd like to suggest an addition to the Packages feature...Chocolatey packages. As an API reference, this would require NuGet v2 support(I understand there are some enhancements for a full-featured Chocolatey repo but NuGet v2 is the base). Additionally, this would change up the package view page with references to chocolatey commands, e.g. choco push and choco install instead of the dotnet NuGet commands. I personally would try to put choco:// links on the page but that protocol is unofficial.

While Chocolatey will eventually upgrade to support NuGet V3, and technically you could use Gitea's NuGet API as a repo at that point, there is no set date on that upgrade and the pages would reference dotnet commands.

Thoughts?

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[KN4CK3R]

I did not test it but can't you just use the NuGet registry as a Chocolatey registry?

[Jamie96ITS]

I did not test it but can't you just use the NuGet registry as a Chocolatey registry?

Unfortunately you cannot. While you can apparently still Push packages to the registry if you drop the index.json from the API, use of the API on the client side to query and pull packages does not work. I believe this is because Gitea only supports v3 of the NuGet API? Chocolatey does not support that yet™️. It is a major overhaul for Chocolatey that has been in the works for some time now and may be quite a while longer to be finished. I’m on mobile now and will edit this/respond later to reference the open issue there. See Choco 1697 and Choco 508

So for Chocolatey, we would need the v2 version of the NuGet API, which I understand is quite old and deprecated on the NuGet side of things. Hence it would make sense to leave NuGet alone and consider it as a Chocolatey API, especially if it were ever to include any of their “enhancements”. Though I don't think those are strictly necessary, if someone were to figure them out, they don't belong with vanilla NuGet.

[KN4CK3R]

Ah, missed that they only support v2, thanks. I will have a look at the v2 api spec.

[KN4CK3R]

I have added #21393. Could you test this PR?

[Jamie96ITS]

So far so good! It works for everything I use it for. I can push, list, info, and install without complaint.