I thought for a moment I was missing something here. I always just use winget for this sort of thing as well. It may kickoff a bunch of things, but it’s pretty low effort and reliable.
> What if you have two different project with different requirements at the same time?
Install multiple versions of Windows SDK. They co-exist just fine; new versions don’t replace old ones. When I was an independent contractor, I had 4 versions of visual studio and 10 versions of windows SDK all installed at once, different projects used different ones.
Nearly all of the Windows hate i see comes from 20 year old takes . ( the bing/cortana / copilot / ads slop criticism is warranted, but is also easily disabled).
I thought for a moment I was missing something here. I always just use winget for this sort of thing as well. It may kickoff a bunch of things, but it’s pretty low effort and reliable.
But those are installed system wide. What if you have two different project with different requirements at the same time?
Every language should have a tool like Python uv.
> What if you have two different project with different requirements at the same time?
Install multiple versions of Windows SDK. They co-exist just fine; new versions don’t replace old ones. When I was an independent contractor, I had 4 versions of visual studio and 10 versions of windows SDK all installed at once, different projects used different ones.
You can provide custom options to winget, and in there where to install it too (and additional components you need).
Nearly all of the Windows hate i see comes from 20 year old takes . ( the bing/cortana / copilot / ads slop criticism is warranted, but is also easily disabled).
it's not ideal, but much much much better!