Support a Windows package manager

[wren]

We have been prioritizing pip install jrnl as our preferred installation method. We have never supported choco, but probably need to if we want to properly support Windows. These releases should be automated in our deployment pipeline (similar to #686).

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[MinchinWeb]

PyOxidizer look promising for this. The idea is to embed a Python interpreter, plus all your code and dependencies, into a single EXE. In theory, we could probably configure Travis to build it, and then push it to Choco (and to GitHub releases...). However, it currently can't deal with poetry-managed projects (see #201 and #199 for a WIP possible solution.)

[MinchinWeb]

To investigate: dephell supports "conversion" of packaging formats, so it may be able to create a setup.py + requirements.txt from the existing poetry setup, and then we could feed that to PyOxidizer.

Alternately, Breifcase (from BeeWare) is an ongoing project to add good packaging to Python projects, and has added support for Windows since the last time I looked at it. Briefcase could possibly support all of our target OS's: Mac, Linux, and Windows, and iOS + Android too if we wanted (although I have no idea how the command line would render on mobile...).

[micahellison]

It looks like Microsoft is getting into the package management game with this new tool winget. It's still in the works, but it looks promising and might be worth supporting as it nears its 1.0 release. We'd still need to generate an exe, msi, or msix, however.

[MinchinWeb]

Last I looked winget had a long way to go: you could use it for installs, but not uninstalls or upgrades...