Autoupdater - progress and download choice

[euberdeveloper]

What I did

I have packaged my electron app with electron-packager and build its installer with electron-winstaller.
I used autoUpdater (from electron) for the update process.

So I got:
*RELEASES
*myapp.exe-1.0.0-full.nupkg
*myappinstaller.exe

I put them in a github release with tag: v1.0.0
Then I did the same with v2.0.0 and the v1.0.0 app updated automatically to v2.0.0 on the next restart.

The problem and the feature requested

Altough it worked, I find that it would be useful to have an event in wich we can find the downloading progress to show to the users. Electron apps are indeed quite heavy and take a lot of time to be downloaded.

In addition, updates are downloaded soon after a new version is found. The problem is that the user does not have a chance to discard the update if he wants to stay with the old version.

Alternatives

There is a third part package, electron-updater wich is very powerful and allows to be notified of the download progress and to choose when install the update or wheter install it.
Its only problem is that it works with electron-builder and it does not match my case, because I'm using electron-winstaller

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[dangeredwolf]

This issue has been dead for a while, but I just want to concur that this would be very useful in the default electron autoUpdater.

[b-zurg]

Seriously yes. Give a little more control. There's many valid use cases for not hiding so much.

[h5aaimtron]

@codebytere @ckerr sorry, just getting some attention to a low hanging fruit feature that would have a big positive impact if implemented. I believe this is implemented on other auto updaters for electron.