Question: sparkle:installerArguments

[del314]

Hello,
I would like to use functionality provided by sparkle:installerArguments in the Appcast, so that I can pass "/passive" option when running MSI. However, we don't control the configuration of Appcast, as we are currently using a provider to host, HockeyApp (and they don't support the extension in their API).

What I like to know is if there is a way in the WinSparkle API to explicitly configure the installer arguments? I'd like to force WinSparkle to always execute the MSI with "/passive" option.

If it isn't currently supported, how difficult would it be to add?

Thanks.

[Youw]

It is not supported and it likely won't be (unless you want to build a patched copy of your own).

I'd suggest to wrap your updater into self-extracting archive, that starts the actual updater with whatever extra argument you need.

[del314]

The change seems rather straight forward to do within the API, I'll fork and take shot at it myself. This seems a useful change.

While the self extracting archive approach seems viable, it's just another configuration I don't need for such a simple function.