Join the Squirrel Chat Room

[anaisbetts]

If you're interested in Squirrel.Windows.Next and want to get involved, the best way is via joining our Slack room on the topic:

Getting In

Email paul@paulbetts.org with the Email address you'd like to join up with and I can send you an invite

[peters]

Awesome that you decided to continue the development of Squirrel. We use it in all our products, and we'd like to start the process of migrating as soon as possible 💃.

Also we'd like to contribute our application.restarter implementation (a separate executable) that uses ipc restarting target application after a successfully applied update. It's ready on our myget feed, and if you want i could provide a PR demonstrating said functionality.

[anaisbetts]

@peters That'd be awesome! If you guys are using Squirrel you should definitely be in the chat

[GeertvanHorrik]

Link for convenience: https://reactivex.slack.com/messages/squirrel/

[jweinstein]

Is this channel still active? Wagon engineers would love to join!

[shiftkey]

@anaisbetts is this still a thing? I think I've still got the admin bit to be able to invite people, and I think this could be a bit more prominent in the repository to help bring peeps together...

[peters]

@shiftkey I have a cross-platform drop in replacement of squirrel that supports Windows and Linux. It has offline and a web installer as well. It uses myget (any nuget server v2/v3) is supported. This way you never have to store any packages locally. It also supports channels in the same way chrome does (think Canary etc). I have been planning to open source it for a while but haven’t had the time to write up the docs. If you want to contribute I will release it under the MIT license.

[peters]

Oh btw, its production ready as its used commercially in our company products.

[shiftkey]

@peters for the moment I'd like to focus on Squirrel.Windows because there's a lot of existing usage of it that depends on ongoing maintenance work.

[peters]

@shiftkey That’s fair! ☺️ But if you find the time let me know because feature wise its basically a clone except its written from scratch and has 400+ unit tests.

[robmen]

With the advent of GitHub Discussions, we have a public forum that is also internet searchable. Feel free to discuss Squirrel there.