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Use squirrel for installation and updates #34

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bNobo opened this issue Jun 9, 2020 · 4 comments
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Use squirrel for installation and updates #34

bNobo opened this issue Jun 9, 2020 · 4 comments
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bNobo commented Jun 9, 2020

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

  • ClickOnce requires a web site to store binaries and a certificate to sign the installer. Currently binaries are stored on GitHub Pages which is quite slow (several seconds to download only 2Mb!).
  • A certificate is expansive so given that it is an open source application with no revenue there is currently no certificate. Final users get a red warning from the UAC each time they download or install the application
  • When there is an update the user has to wait until its installation after having launched the application

Describe the solution you'd like

Create a package nuget from the project and deploy it using Squirrel.Windows

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've considered many alternatives in issue #6 but none of these seem to come close to what Squirrel offers.

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squirrel.windows

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@bNobo bNobo added the enhancement New feature or request label Jun 9, 2020
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bNobo commented Jun 10, 2020

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bNobo commented Jun 10, 2020

Unfortunately it does not address the signing issue: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/blob/develop/docs/using/application-signing.md

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bNobo commented Jul 29, 2022

@bNobo bNobo closed this as completed Jul 29, 2022
@bNobo bNobo closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jul 29, 2022
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caesay commented Sep 29, 2022

Hi there, Just ran into this from the linked electron issue. Thought I would drop a note as I maintain a popular Squirrel fork that has fixed a lot of the issues from the original project!

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