Interfaces & Data

Interfaces

Interface	Type
PowerShell launchers	Automation
winapp CLI	MSIX packaging
wsl.exe	Import/launch
Windows Terminal (wt.exe)	Launch target
Linux tools (unsquashfs, tar)	Extraction (inside a WSL toolbox distro)

Produces

• WSL rootfs tar (install.tar.gz / *.tar)
• MSIX installer packages
• Launcher EXE (via ps2exe)
• Rootfs and ISO SHA-256 records
• Staging / msix-stage folders

Consumes

• Live ISO / filesystem.squashfs per distro
• devcert.pfx (developer signing certificate)
• Windows host wsl.exe and tools
• A Linux toolbox with squashfs-tools and tar
• AppManifest/AppxManifest XML files

Depends on

• winapp CLI
• ps2exe (Invoke-PS2EXE)
• WSL host runtime
• Windows Terminal
• Child distro workspaces (antix, feren, cbpp, clearlinux, etc.)

Used by

• Single-operator workflows
• .toolbox (the shared group container distro)
• Per-distro packaging scripts

Notable governance detail

Ten distro workspaces are registered under this one project group, but they're at very different stages of completeness — Clear Linux has a documented hash chain and frozen working baseline; others are earlier in the pipeline. The next_steps in the manifest deliberately scope to "pick one child distro and take it end-to-end" rather than trying to advance all ten simultaneously.